Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
So ISIS Is Not Infidel—Are Christians?
The Egyptian university, Al-Azhar, the world’s oldest and most prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim scholarship, refused to…
Kowtowing to Moscow = Bad Ecumenism
In his tireless work for Christian unity, St. John Paul II often expressed the hope that Christianity…
Should Children Make Up Their Own Minds About Religion?
I don’t make my kids go to church; I want them to make up their own minds…
Why Christians Care About Sex
A new study out this week shows widening gaps in how different demographics in America approach sexuality…
Ecumenism After 50 Years
From the introduction to a lecture presented at the Gregorian University in Rome on the occasion of…
In A Tight Place with Profanity
Sometimes it’s hard to know what to do, and sometimes it isn’t. The other night I had…
Freedom From Food
If vegetarianism is the dietary equivalent of pacifism, then Soylent is a form of dietary celibacy. Soylent…
Death With Aesthetics
We don’t speak plainly in public discourse anymore. Rather, we equivocate and deploy euphemisms to sanitize our…
The Way God Conducts Us
At an academic conference not too long ago, I delivered a paper on St. Paul’s view of…
Bessie’s House
Five years ago, Mike Low started Bessie’s House in Kansas City’s Northeast neighborhood, where unemployment is at…
The Pope and the Problem of Punishment
Pope Francis recently gave a speech to the International Association of Penal Law advocating for the improvement…
My Memories of Fr. Benedict
My memory of Fr. Benedict Groeschel goes back to 1964, when he was the Catholic chaplain at…
Fear of Children
In a scene cut from The Exorcist’s 1973 theatrical version, Jason Miller’s Fr. Damien Karras sits with…
Two Days on a Holy Mountain
A few months ago, my wife noticed that (to borrow from Wordsworth) the world was too much…
The Coming Methodist Revival?
These days, when outsiders consider Methodism, they tend to quickly assume that it is just withering away…
