politics

Valentine's Day last week marked the first anniversary of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas...

I recently read the following observations: They weren’t such bad fellows. He had mixed with...

President Donald Trump’s delayed State of the Union address is tonight. Most everyone knows what...

Not long ago, my wife Jeanne decided to audit a graduate theology course on campus...

I recently found out from the editors of Bearings Online, an online magazine that I contribute...

There are so many things that Vice President Mike Pence could be deeply offended by....

We ought not to hide from ourselves that Nazi Germany is a mirror for all...

Why do intelligent people believe lies that are easily exposed as lies? Why do intelligent...

We’ve all done this, we bang and bang on the door of hope, and don’t...

I recently had a brief, unproductive exchange in the comment section of this blog with...

Just when you thought you had heard and read it all . . . "If...

Today is Black Friday, the unfortunate beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Apparently in service...

One of my favorite features of liturgical worship is encountering familiar and favorite texts during...

I began Election Day last Tuesday at the gym, riding the stationary bike for an...

Thanks to the caravan of refugees moving north, President Trump's choice to stoke up fears...

If everybody is your neighbor, then nobody is. Rod Dreher Next semester, a colleague and...

Tomorrow is Halloween!–one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends...

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 Another week, another bunch of...

According to the gospel accounts, Jesus had little regard for traditional honorifics, titles, or the...

One of my many fond memories of my sons’ youth was our early Saturday morning...

A couple of Sundays ago, it was my turn to be lector at the Episcopal...

Last spring I taught a colloquium called "Apocalypse" with a colleague from the English department....

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are they not both...

It's Labor Day--an opportunity for each of us to reflect on the value of our...

While the President of the United States tweeted his usual string of petty Saturday morning...

My youngest son was born in 1981 and grew up as Americans began, for the...

One of my favorite staff writers for The New Yorker is Rebecca Mead; she’s been...

I grew up in hunting country where at the appropriate times each year the males...

Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree, and there shall...

Fifteen years ago, I was part of a group of a dozen or so academics...