Queer Theology

by Mark Bauerlein

John Murawski joins the podcast to discuss his recent article “Queering Jesus: How It's Going Mainstream at Progressive Churches and Top Divinity Schools.” Continue Reading »

7 Aug 2023

The Fatal Message of Synodal Activism

by Martin Grichting

What is currently being pursued under the name of “synodality” represents the continuation of the Tridentine hierarchy-centered understanding of the Church. Such immobilism risks making Christianity irrelevant. Continue Reading »

7 Aug 2023

Man Up

by Peter J. Leithart

The distinction between the Good Man and the Real Man draws the line between toxic and non-toxic masculinity.  Continue Reading »

4 Aug 2023

Divinity Schools and Diversity

by Gerald McDermott

More and more students are voting with their feet, declining to go into debt for an education that displaces classical learning with ideology. Divinity schools, especially those that profess orthodoxy, should know better. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2023

From Westerplatte to Lisbon . . . and Everywhere Else

by George Weigel

John Paul II did not pander to the young. He understood from experience that deep within the youthful heart is a yearning for meaning, for nobility, for greatness.  Continue Reading »

2 Aug 2023

Chilton Williamson’s Errand into the Wilderness

by M. D. Aeschliman

We ought to value persons for their habitual qualities and their achievements. Chilton Williamson’s character and accomplishments are in many respects exemplary—especially his Christian hope. Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2023

Letters

by Various

Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey’s article “Insight at First Sight” (May 2023) was perceptive and timely. I have experienced the negative attitude toward love-at-first-sight and happily-ever-after stories while studying English in college. Students often resort to thinking of these . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2023

Seriously, God Is Love

by Peter J. Leithart

Sergius Bulgakov has long been hailed by Orthodox and non-­Orthodox alike as a titan of twentieth-­century theology. He wrote on everything. After a youthful flirtation with Marx, he published Philosophy of Economy (1912), an anti-Marxist work of social theory. In The Tragedy of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2023

Sex in the One State

by Liel Leibovitz

The most important book you can read right now is a little (and little-known) Russian novel titled We. First published in English in 1924 by E. P. Dutton, it soon landed its author, Yevgeny Zamyatin, in trouble. An early and enthusiastic Bolshevik—he was arrested in 1905 for his . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2023

Synodality and the Spirit of Truth

by Michael Hanby

“Facts and great personages in world history occur, as it were, twice . . . the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” The Synod on Synodality seems destined to confirm Marx’s words (themselves a revision of Hegel). The tragedy arises from the deep theological and philosophical division . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2023