Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Holy Week 2022: A Wartime Meditation
In both the Roman and Byzantine liturgical calendars, Lent 2022 has coincided with a brutal war in…
The Meaning of a Kiss
Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?” (Luke 22:48). We all know the reasons…
How the Person Became a Self
The following is adapted from the foreword to Carl R. Trueman’s new book Strange New World: How…
France’s Tragic Song
The Song of Rolandtranslated by dorothy l. sayerspenguin, 208 pages, $14 This year, France’s presidential election is…
From Anglican to Catholic
On September 29 last year, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, I was received into…
The End of Christendom?
New York police officer Wilbert Mora was buried February 2. He was gunned down in a Harlem…
A Theology of Fiction
A spirited debate has been going on for nearly a decade now, much of it in these pages,…
God of the Gold and Purple finches
Finches at all my feeders flash and bicker in ritual consternation and all weather, jangle at me…
Calendar as Catechism
The Jewish calendar is the Jewish catechism: So said the -nineteenth-century German champion of Jewish Orthodoxy, Samson…
Rising, Rooted
Now is the timeto be still and listen,This is the beginning,Help us to hear,Rooted and rising,The sound…
Mirrors of Perfection
Our society is confused about children. We allow their destruction in the womb and their manufacture in…
An Anglo-Latin Prayer From The Book of Nunnaminster II
II. Appearance O Architect of the stars (brightness blazoned as if strewn), you, who ranged the constellations…
Nihilism for the Ironhearted
When a man proclaims nature malignant in all its parts and professes to hate life itself, one’s…
Letters
East and West In his memoirs of growing up in the U.S.S.R., Wolfgang Leonhard recalled how he…
A Grief Philosophized
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Cholbi joins the podcast…
