Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“Synodality” and the Rome Abuse Summit
Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s…
Letters from the Vatican: #2
Thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s Pennsylvania grand jury report (which followed hard…
Can the West Find Forgiveness?
World leaders’ interventions in the West’s current migrant controversy are rarely helpful. In February 2017, Pope Francis, speaking…
Letters from the Vatican: #1
The whole course of Christianity from the first … is but one series of troubles and disorders.…
Sexuality and the UMC
On February 23, the United Methodist Church will hold a special General Conference in St. Louis to…
Evangelical Ruskin
2019 is the bicentennial year of John Ruskin’s birth, and he is suddenly all the rage. London’s…
Evangelical Apocalypse
It was only a matter of time before journalists dove into an evangelical institution to find skeletons…
Sex Abuse Among Southern Baptists
Those who oppose the Lord will be broken. The Most High will thunder from heaven; the Lord will judge the ends of the…
The Ever-Present Totalitarian Temptation
First circulated underground in communist Czechoslovakia in October 1978, Václav Havel’s brilliant dissection of totalitarianism, “The Power…
Methodist Madness
Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly…
Our Poor
Fifteen years ago I wrote a little volume for the Acton Institute titled Inhabiting the Land. In…
Wojtyłan Fantasies, Revisited
For almost three decades the Catholic left has turned intellectual somersaults arguing that John Paul II didn’t…
The Moral Depravity of Andrew Cuomo & Friends
Writing recently on women seeking the presidency and the “likability” factor in our politics, Peggy Noonan made…
A Gleeful Slaughter of the Innocents
To Bishop Andrew Dietsche, Episcopal Diocese of New York: As an Episcopalian in New York City, I regularly…
Democrats Defending Life
You should know that on January 22, 2019, New York State became the abortion capital of the…