The Polyglot Politics of Pentecost

by Peter J. Leithart

Pentecost sounds like a repeat of Babel, but, unlike Babel, Pentecostal tongues communicate rather than confuse. Continue Reading »

18 May 2018 0

Versions of Paul

by John Wilson

Why do so many books on the Apostle Paul appear every year?  Continue Reading »

11 May 2018 0

Books for Christmas

by George Weigel

It’s been a good reading year and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not “holiday”) shopping list:God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at Synod-2015 and with good reason, for this interview-style . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Dec 2015 0

The Difference Easter Makes

by George Weigel

One of the striking things about the Easter and post-Easter narratives in the New Testament is that they are largely about incomprehension: which is to say that, in the canonical Gospels, the early Church admitted that it took some time for the first Christian believers to understand what had happened in the Resurrection, and how what had happened changed everything. Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2014 0