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America’s Vanishing Church
Mainline Protestantism tried to reject the extremes of evangelical Christianity while also resisting the pull toward nonreligion. In doing so, it…
Ryan P. Burge
The Monk Bringing Orthodox Christianity to an Island at the Edge of the World
Father Seraphim has seen pilgrims from all over the world flock to the Isle of Iona to attend his services.
Huw Paige
Things Worth Remembering: The Divine Beauty of Imperfection
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Pied Beauty’ teaches us to see in every speckled, contradictory thing an icon of the God who did not disdain to be born among…
Robert A. Sirico
I’m Christian. My Wife Is Jewish. Our Marriage Is an Act of Faith.
As the editor of a religious journal, I spend my days contemplating theological differences and the meaning of belief. But it was my marriage to a…
R. R. Reno
Two Prophets of American Faith
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Joshua Heschel were from different centuries and traditions. They both speak clearly to our dispirited world.
David Wolpe
An Epiphany on a Hill. The Birth of Christianity. Plus. . .
Matthew Walther on America’s religious kaleidoscope, books to bring you closer to God, and much more in a special Christmas edition of The Front Page.
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The Great American Religious Attic
American religious pluralism cannot be reduced to law or theory. It is a lived historical reality that has defined the nation from its earliest days.
Matthew Walther
I Saw Christ on a Hill
When I decided to spend 101 days walking into a forest, it wasn’t God I was seeking. And yet he found me.
Martin Shaw
Ancient Wisdom: Getting Christmas Right, At Last
I got my kids too many presents—until I realized, less is more.
Joe Nocera
Things Worth Remembering: Don’t Feed Them After Midnight
‘Gremlins’ isn’t just a cult Christmas classic—it’s a parable about technology and modern chaos.
Tim DeRoche
The Golden Age of Humanity? We’re Living in It.
Modernity is more meaningful and moral than medieval Christendom.
Steven Pinker and Marian L. Tupy
We Can’t Stop Conversion Therapy. But We Have to Try.
The Supreme Court is faced with a referendum on this horrific practice. I spoke to survivors to understand what’s at stake.
River Page
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