Elijah, the great scholar (Gaon) of Vilna in the eighteenth century, is synonymous with total devotion to Torah study above all other pursuits. Paradoxically, because he held that deficiency in mundane wisdom leads to deficient understanding of God’s word, he has also become an emblem for . . . . Continue Reading »
A realized autocephaly for Ukrainian Orthodoxy would “mark a new period in the history of the Universal Church.” Continue Reading »
John Garvey, president of Catholic University, is between a rock and a hard place. Continue Reading »
Let us link arms as Christians and Jews, bearing witness in our loyalty to each other, a loyalty that does not deny our profound theological differences, but holds forth the possibility of unity in our divided country. Continue Reading »
Denunciations of West show how brittle the nostalgic orthodoxy of black leadership has now become. Continue Reading »
Featuring Philip Hamburger on his new book, Liberal Suppression. Continue Reading »
Though the guilty did not suffer for far too long, now some innocents suffer too much in the correction. Continue Reading »
As Europe and its elites secularize ever more rapidly the Hungarian people have voted to keep “a little slice of Christianity in Hungary.” Continue Reading »
When the temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party is not resisted, it invariably leads to trouble—politically and, more importantly, evangelically. Continue Reading »
Not every kind of hope is good, let alone morally good. Continue Reading »
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