Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Two Birds on a Christmas Tree
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves…
Woman, and Women, of the Year
January 1 marks the start of a new secular year. But for Catholics, it’s something more. Tucked…
Anna Is Our Advent Model
In the Parable of the Unjust Judge (Luke 18:1–8), a poor widow seeks justice. Day after day…
Advent from a Prison Cell
The recent (and sadly flawed) movie Bonhoeffer reminds us that Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and Lutheran…
Christianity and Civilization
The room was overflowing, the applause thunderous. Novelist, activist, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth delivered a galvanizing Erasmus…
My Gay Tragedy
I sat in my chair, looking through the window across the wide plain to the towers of…
Against Christian Civilization
The last time I was in America, which was last autumn, I visited the battlefield at Little…
Pascal’s Wager: An Update
Should you believe in God? For many people, belief is a matter of faith. But let’s say…
Let God
I’m a great lover of the English language, but I must confess that, lately, I’ve come to…
Mere Christendom
Douglas Wilson argues for what ought to be uncontroversial: governance by wise Christians. He calls it “mere Christendom”…
The Less You Know
There’s a car mechanic I have known for years. Ed knew my father and worked on his…
Ready for Weirdness
Living in Wonder:Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Ageby rod dreherzondervan, 288 pages, $29.99 Is life…
Finding Order in the Pieces
In October of 2023, I wrote a column here about how I came to be doing jigsaw…
The Things That Are Above
The 2024 U.S. election season proved a time of revelation for the Church. A remarkable and worrying…
Low Church Atheism
The heyday of “New Atheism” around 2009 or 2010 featured a strain of millennial humor that has…
