Max Weber and the Souls of Black Folk
Christopher McAuley on the meeting between W.E.B. Dubious and Max Weber and their later forking paths.
A Hidden Life Hides Too Much of Franz Jägerstätter's Life
Shawn Storer reviews Terence Malick's A Hidden Life.
The Bible as a Quest Into God
Carolyn Pirtle invites you to see with the new eyes of the St. John's Bible.
Education Should Aim at God, Not the Job Market
Daniel Drain takes education back to its roots.
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How to Do Moral Theology Today
Alessandro Rovati proposes New Wine, New Wineskins as an antidote to the crisis of Catholic moral theology.
Amidst Plagues: The Church's Call to Foster Care and More
Holly Taylor Coolman makes the case for foster care as one model for the Christian life.
The Gift of the Body Versus the Violent Impulse
Laura Bramon on the gift of the body and the struggle to affirm it against genocide and human-trafficking.
Prayer and the Shame From Racism
Sheila Wise Rowe gives an example of the emotional and spiritual toll of racism.
Can the Feminine Speak?
Abigail Favale on Woman in the Catholic imagination.
The Word Made Beautiful: The Saint John's Bible
A few years ago the McGrath Institute for Church Life welcomed Donald Jackson, the visionary calligrapher commissioned by St. John’s University in Collegeville to create a hand-written illuminated Bible using techniques that date b...
Sacramentality on the Western Front
Josh Noem takes a close look at 1917's Catholic details.
St. Augustine's Relativistic Theory of Time
Stephen Barr considers the intersection between modern physics and St. Augustine.
God Is Friendship
Nathaniel Peters celebrates Aelred of Rievaulx's unique contribution to Christian theology.
Kobe Bryant and the Bread of Life
Leonard DeLorenzo ponders the life of Kobe Bryant and appearances.
Friendship in a Time of Cyberattack
Michael Baxter reports from the frontline of the Regis Jesuit University cyberattack.
The Eclipse of Sex by the Rise of Gender
Abigail Favale, Director of the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox, reconstructs the history of how collective focus shifted from sex to gender.
The Hot Century Through Middle-Eastern Eyes
Martino Diez puts forward the hard lessons the Middle East has to teach the world about the future.
The Need for Deprofessionalizing Evangelization
Peter Andrastek demonstrates why informal evangelization is effective.
The Personal Stakes of The Two Popes
Tim Kelleher gives two-thumbs up to The Two Popes.
The Nature of Gothic and Modern Oblivion
John Ruskin on the humanizing elements of the Gothic period and their recent disappearance.
Saint Bernard: Unlikely Patron of Christian Unity
Charles Ridley draws on Saint Bernard as an unlikely resource for ecumenism.
TODAY: You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die: A CLJ Lecture by Eugene McCarraher
On February 6th Eugene McCarraher will deliver a CLJ Lecture about The Enchantments of Mammon (followed by a book discussion).
A Protestant Integralist?
Peter Leithart recalls the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin.
All This Useless Beauty
Jessica Hooten Wilson discusses the countercultural power of beauty.
Prayer and the Darkness of God
Denys Turner on the darkness of God, prayer, and the Trinity.
How to Read Mark's Gospel
Ron Hansen takes you on a tour of how to read Mark's Gospel.
Marxism Died in the East Because It Realized Itself in the West
Augusto Del Noce ponders the fate of Communism after 1989 in his last publication.
An Alternate History of Modern Science
Christopher Graney imagines how the Copernican Revolution might've avoided the science and religion wars.
A Story of Divorce as Self-Realization
Anna Keating reviews Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story.
Does the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Shed New Light on Theological Anthropology?
Christopher Baglow examines the theological potential of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.
Fleabag, Fully-Clothed
Roberto De La Noval explores the hit show Fleabag and the depths of desire.
Rehabilitating Saint Simeon the Stylite
Elizabeth Klein debunks characterizations of Simeon Stylites as a fanatic.
The Convergence of Jews and Gentiles
Augustine of Hippo expounds the significance of the Feast of the Epiphany.
Setting out Into the Dark with God
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the only journey from heaven: through the world.
Scrooge Had a Vocation Too!
Dwight Lindley on the nature of Scrooge's call and response.
The Phenomenology of Christ in Flesh and Bones
Emmanuel Falque on the possibility of thinking a truly fleshly Incarnation and Resurrection.
Richard Dawkins Discovers His Ideal Idiom and Audience
David Bentley Hart reviews Richard Dawkins's Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide.
A Divided Society Is Already Conquered
Tim Kelleher on Putin, identity politics, and stardust.
Stop Looking for a Francis Effect in the Numbers
Timothy O'Malley celebrates the pope's birthday by taking another look at the "Francis effect" controversy.
