Tariffs Won’t Bring Back the Male Breadwinner
Economic populists often tell a version of this story: In the working-class heyday that was the post–World War II economic model, a man could put a roof over his…
October 2026
Print Edition
October 2026 Print Edition
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Left Is Right About the Bible
Friendly Neighborhood Philosopher
Every now and then, a work of art comes along that helps us think through the thicket…
Talkin’ God and Football
Paul Finebaum is known as “the mouth of the South,” but he does a lot of listening.…
Creedal Orthodoxy Won’t Save Us
Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in…
The Scandal of Jewish Belief
The Gospel of Matthew ends with this promise of Jesus to his disciples: “Behold, I am with…
Icarus Descending
Tariffs Won’t Bring Back the Male Breadwinner
Economic populists often tell a version of this story: In the working-class heyday that was the post–World…
What Is A Nation?
We think the political world is divvied up into nearly two hundred distinct nations, each with mappable…
Canada’s Deadliest Blind Spot
On September 20, the Daily Mail ran a story with the provocative headline, “Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother…
The Faithful Joy of Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen
Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore…
Living Humanae Vitae in Poland
Humanae Vitae remains alive, if not entirely well, fifty-eight years after its promulgation. When Pope Paul VI…
The Making of Roger Scruton
Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party,…
Seven Years Alone on Wildcat Mountain
I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was…
How Not to Defend Reading
Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of…
The Protestant Missions History Forgot
The World’s Reformation is a splendid achievement. Extensively researched, Alec Ryrie’s book covers an extraordinary global scope,…
The “Right to Die” Will Be The Death of Solidarity
Imagine that you work as a janitor in the office building of a large corporation. One evening…
Lethe
He thought he saw her in the orchid house / and all the flowers seemed to disappear…
On Suddenly Having Several Children
“God never gives us more than we can take,” / the midwife told us, after catching…
Centaur
The Etruscan centaur holds up his right hand, / not palm outward as if to stop chariot…
Re-Viewing Vatican II
George Lindbeck, the distinguished Lutheran theologian, served from 1962 through 1965 as one of sixty “Delegated Observers”…
Lutheran in Limbo
Lutherans are a theologically odd lot. They started the Reformation, but they have never felt entirely comfortable…
T. F. Torrance and the Latin Heresy
Most noted for his work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted…
Founding Fathers?
John Winthrop was forty-two years old when in 1630 he joined the Puritans who left England in…
A Rose in Bloom: Luther’s Reformation at 500
In many ways, Lutherans occupy an unusual space in world Christendom—too “Catholic” for their Baptist friends and…
Small Is Beautiful
If Google is a reliable search engine, the anniversary of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church on June 11…
