Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Purity in the Digital Age
When my family lived in Colorado, one of our greatest pleasures was the long drive west from…
The High-Priced Spread, Revisited
Readers of a certain vintage (say, over sixty) will remember the Imperial Margarine TV ad that dismissed…
Bring Back the Blue Laws
My home state of North Dakota just removed the respirator from a dying vestige of American culture.…
Evangelicals and Zen Masters
One evening in 1995, at an evangelical Bible study in New Jersey for twenty-somethings, I learned that…
Violence and Politesse
Of all the places I’ve worked and played in my life, the politest one, the one where…
“Heaven and Everything Else”
I first read Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man less than twenty years after…
Specter of the Beatitudes
Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britainedited by michael rosenprinceton, 328 pages, $19.95…
A Parting of Ways
So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me.” Genesis 13:8 We are brothers.…
Deus Absconditus (After Psalm 88)
When all is well it’s easy to confessYour goodness Lord, but when you disappearCapriciously ignoring our distressYou…
Letters
God’s Supersessionism David Novak (“Supersessionism Hard and Soft,” February) clearly demonstrates the negative consequences of the “hard”…
A Religion of Activism
In 2002, in these pages, Peter Berger, the late American sociologist, offered a succinct summary of the…
Pelagius the Progressive
The year 2018 marked the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the excommunication of one of Christianity’s most famous heretics:…
From Crete to Romania
In Iași, Romania, in January 2019, some three hundred Orthodox scholars gathered for the inaugural conference of…
Manufacturing Hate
Virginia governor Ralph Northam had a tough February. Soon after he made brutal remarks about the fate…
Mild and Equitable Establishments
Whitefish Mountain, a ski resort in northwest Montana, is known for its spicy terrain, rime-clothed “snow ghosts,”…
