Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Tim Walz, Progressive Lutheran
I share a hometown—West Point, Nebraska—with some prominent Lutherans: Martin Marty, the famed historian; Ralph Bohlmann, the…
Good News from an Independent Bookshop
A year and a half ago, our city’s one bookshop went up for sale. My wife and I bought it.…
Repurposing the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), rhetorically oversold as the “U.S. Church’s anti-poverty program”—Do no other…
Kamala’s Abortion Extremism
Kamala Harris is an abortion extremist. Her words and actions over the course of her career—as California’s…
Is Hindu Nationalism Friendly to Christianity?
The National Conservatism Conference has always featured an array of Judeo-Christian politicians, clergy, and lobbyists. But this…
Angelic Seeing
Passions of the Soul by rowan williams bloomsbury, 160 pages, $15 These reflections, gentle but piercing in…
Judith Butler’s Sophistry
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by judith butler farrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $30 Judith Butler’s status…
Empire Under Siege
A storm is coming. Earlier this year, I wrote about the cultural and political disruptions sure to arise…
The Future of The Catholic Church
Is the Second Vatican Council receding in the church’s rearview mirror? Has the Francis pontificate raised new…
Liberalism’s Fourth Turning
Something is wrong with America. A generation after the Great Republic vanquished the Soviet Union and established…
Mozart’s God
In a glass case at Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg is a small wax doll. Its eyes look…
Feel Free
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by robert m. sapolsky penguin, 528 pages, $35 Many…
Re-Enchanting Ethics
The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by oliver o’donovan eerdmans, 167 pages, $40.99 Twenty years ago,…
Shulamith Firestone Was a Prophet
This week, while preparing for a talk on what it means to be human, I revisited the…
Evangelicals Must Stop Their Preferential Treatment of the Left
Aaron Renn’s “negative world” thesis broadly posits that in contemporary America the primary forces of culture are…
