October 2015
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Transgender Delusion
Human nature does not change. Despite our postmodern sophistication and our wishful thinking about perfectibility, our nature…
Mother Church or Uncle Sam
Wyoming Catholic College, of which I serve as president, recently determined that it has a duty to…
Letters
no discipline I am writing to express my shock and disappointment at the profanity in the article…
Deutsche Kirche, Inc.
In the run-up to this fall’s Synod on the Family, we’ve been hearing a lot from the…
Saint Origen
A month or so ago I found myself hovering at the edges of a long, rambling, repetitive intra-Orthodox…
The Wreckage of Obergefell
Every generation, it seems, has its paradigm-defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that…
False Freedom
The majority opinion in Obergefell, written by Justice Kennedy, opens with a grand claim about the nature…
Evangelicals Won’t Cave
Could the next Billy Graham be a married lesbian? In the year 2045, will Focus on the…
Through African Eyes
As an African and an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana teaching at a seminary…
Newman for Protestants
I discovered John Henry Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua on a rainy morning in Cambridge in 1994. I…
Theology’s Umpire
Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures by paul griffiths baylor, 408 pages, $69.95 T here is…
American Heraclitus
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915–1964 by zachary leader knopf, 832 pages, $40…
Holy Warriors
In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by robert g. hoyland…
The Consolation of Philology
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by james turner princeton, 576 pages, $35 She appeared…
Solving the Poor
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by robert d. putnam simon & schuster, 400 pages, $28…
Rules for Being an Altar Boy at Saint John Vianney Parish for the Liturgical Year 1964
If you have to sneeze on the altar do so quietly and turn Your head away from…
Epithalamion
We mark the days that tell us who we are, staccato days that give our lives their…
