Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Protecting Children and Imagining the Worst
Eight years ago in our urban Catholic parish in Connecticut, a teenager I’ll call Elizabeth started a…
Why Conservatives Should Care About Cities
It is not only conservatives but Americans in general who have had a hard time reconciling what…
Faithful Catholics and Faithful Americans
For the early Christians, living in societies that were at best indifferent to Christianity and frequently hostile,…
Stephen Colbert and the Value of Truthiness
In the November issue of First Things, Joseph Bottum wrote, “The weakest set of candidates in living…
The World and the Holy Grail
For some time now, I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s terrific 2003 book, A Short History of Nearly…
The Nature and Grace of the Family; Godself, Her/Himself, and the Story of Salvation; The Dubious Authority of Gay Experience
Work hard, play by the rules, and go to church. The result will be that, by every…
Life, the University, and Everything
There are questions so big they’re almost laughable. What is the meaning of life? for instance. We’ve…
The UCC’s Ethical Suicide Parlor
On September 18, United Church of Christ minister Kristi Denham announced that a new organization of clergy…
The November Issue of First Things Has Arrived
“Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,” writes Alan Jacobs in the new issue…
A Religious People
A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State by Daryl Hart Ivan R.…
Theology and Civil Authority in Time of War
Two fine recent articles by evangelical scholars serve to highlight a problem I have mentioned before in…
Harry Potter and the Christian Critics
A curious teapot tempest of the sort one only finds in the hothouse of Extremely Earnest Conservative…
A Respectful Word on Episcopal Competence
The word competence has several meanings, most of which congregate around ability and authority . It is…
Education and Our Witness to Christ
G.K. Chesterton once described lunatics as people who have lost everything but their reason. What he meant…
A Criterion for Compromises
Our friends over at the New Criterion have put out a big anthology including the editors’ choice…
