Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Lessons from the Decline of Protestant Churches
Reports of the financial struggles and decline in membership among large American denominations have become so commonplace…
Confession Eclipsed
It is often said that the end of Latin as the Church’s liturgical language was the most…
The Henry J. Hyde Federal Building, Please
DuPage County is one of the collar counties bordering Chicago. For years, it had the great good…
David Solomon’s Moral Vision
“There is such a difference between life and theory.”Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn The community of philosophers, and…
Is Christianity No Longer in Decline?
A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center released the results of its most recent Religious Landscape…
Don’t Count On It
Things don’t turn out as we expect. People don’t either. Take friendship as an example, or perhaps…
The Lenten Politics of Measure for Measure
At the beginning of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, withdraws from the city…
I Fear I Hate the Homeless
Last year, a week before Thanksgiving, a homeless man stabbed three people to death in Manhattan. The…
Lent and the Purification of Memory
On December 20, 2002, I was at lunch in the papal apartment when the wide-ranging conversation John…
Hide the Crucifix or Lose Your Job
In January, Marisol Arroyo-Castro, a public school teacher in New Britain, Connecticut, with over three decades of…
Killing Time
On October 29, 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre delivered his lecture “Existentialism Is a Humanism,” a declaration of independence…
Lurid and Marginal
“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong,” Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch told an interviewer in 2015, “and…
Letter to a Young Bishop
Your Excellency, I’m writing only because you asked. I have so far successfully avoided the role of…
The Re-Churching of Men
Church life in America has been majority-female for some time. According to Pew Research, women make up…
Mind the Gap
I grew up in a religiously sympathetic, if not always actively practicing, household. During my toddler years, my…
