Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Freemasons in America
That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culturedavid g. hackett, 336 pages, berkeley, $49.95…
Catholicism Unriddled
I first read Jaroslav Pelikan’s The Riddle of Roman Catholicism: Its History, Its Beliefs, Its Future (1959)…
What Clarence Thomas Meant
In the public square, many misuse the word “dignity” by conflating its subjective and objective meanings. Some…
“Does the Council Matter to my Mother?”
Does the Council matter to my mother?” This question was posed at the Orthodox Theological Society of America’s…
Re-styling Tradition
A new Roman Catholic church, dedicated to St. Thomas Aquinas, has risen at the Newman Center of…
Burning Black Churches
Media reports of the last week have speculated that recent fires at black churches are racist arsons…
The Future of the Christian University
As I stood before more than seven hundred college graduates and their families during our annual ritual…
Bowdoin: One Year Later
One year ago I wrote in these pages about how the InterVarsity ministry at Bowdoin College, with a…
The Pope’s Moment of Grace
When the Pope’s highly anticipated encyclical, Laudato Si finally appeared, Detroit’s Archbishop Allen Vigneron summed up its…
Father’s Day with the Sisters
We are relearning that marriage is not optional. The evidence started piling up in 1965 with Daniel…
Rearing Slaves, Rearing Sons
You’ve heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers…
Visiting Leonard
Leonard was one of those pastoral visits pastors avoid. He was a guy who just got lost…
Gimmicks and God
I have a confession to make. In my former life as a Baptist youth evangelist, I did…
The Gaffigans: An Interview With Serious, Light-Hearted Catholics
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Jim Gaffigan’s new TV show and its depiction of the…
The Religious Crowds
In the 2002 Brazilian film City of God (Cidade de Deus), the narrator, Rocket, provides the audience…
