Why does J. D. Vance want more American babies?
Pronatalists fixate on tomorrow’s imaginary children. Baptism demands that we care for those already born.
False gods of war
In Trump’s Situation Room, as on the fields of Ilium, those who wage war seem unable to experience the violence they inflict as real violence.
J. D. Vance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the parable of the Good Samaritan
The vice president’s mangling of the Christian ordo amoris is just a smokescreen for the largest deportation operation in American history.
Simone Weil’s anti-fascist blueprint
Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.
Political demons
For theologian and civil rights activist William Stringfellow, understanding American politics means taking demons seriously.
The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.
The gender phantasm
Judith Butler seeks to understand how and why the word gender has taken on such apocalyptic proportions, including among Christians.
Why do you want to see?
The Zone of Interest interrogates the desire to bear witness that animates the Holocaust movie as a genre.
A better response to the decline of the Christian West
Some fight to preserve what is fading. Michel de Certeau shows how this is an enormous theological error.
Prayer as mourning, mourning as prayer
In Jon Fosse’s Septology, a tragic vision of faith shines with a luminous darkness.