Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Hitler’s Second Coming
It was surreal. President Biden began his State of the Union speech by invoking the Nazi threat.…
The Case Against the Abortion Pill
Here is how I buried the body of my fifth child: I took myself to the emergency…
The Myth of White Christian Nationalism
In his first speech as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson sounded like a…
The Carthusians of Vermont
In a hollow just north of Bennington, Vermont, near the New York state line, nineteen monks at…
Briefly Noted — 5/24
Contemporary Music and Spirituality edited by robert sholl and sander van maas routledge, 364 pages, $170 There…
Faith and Russian Literature
Russians take positions to the extreme. As a result, Russian intellectual history shows us where ideas may…
Boundaries of Belief
The Development of Dogma: A Systematic Account by guy mansini, o.s.b. catholic university of america, 192 pages,…
Dark Enchantment
Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come by John Daniel Davidson Regnery,…
Phono Sapiens
The Crisis of Narration by byung-chul han polity, 100 pages, $16.95 My friend J, a computer programmer,…
JD Vance, Religious Populist
For at least a generation, the phrase “religious right” has evoked a style of politics marked by…
Arabian Knight
Lawrence of Arabia: My Journey in Search of T. E. Lawrence by Ranulph Fiennes Pegasus Books, 352…
To Catch a Plagiarist
The plagiarism wars have begun. Claudine Gay is out as president of Harvard, in large part because…
In Search of a Psalm to Sing in Dark Times
What shall I say, Lord, now that the wordskeep stumbling, tumbling like loose marblesacross the table then…
Coming and Going
Disappearance is usually felt as something bad. When things disappear, we sense the pull of death, the…
Our Pagan Society
I recently assigned my high school sophomores Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic short story “The Ones Who…
