Reviews & Culture

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

By Chip Russell Tobacco use was once so prevalent and socially acceptable that we could hardly imagine a world without it. Now it’s by and large exiled from polite society, having been rightly identified as ... Read More...

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

By Tyler Been In March of 1933 Karl Barth delivered a lecture, “The First Commandment as Theological Axiom” (cited parenthetically hereafter). This lecture is fascinating for several of reasons. First, it i... Read More...

Keeping Company with God

By Christopher Yoder This is a brief note to commend to you a book that I recently encountered for the first time: Prayer: Living with God by Simon Tugwell, O.P. This summer, the book caught my attention ... Read More...

Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev

Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Art Andrey Rublev: The Artist and His World, a biography by Robin Milner-Gulland of “the greatest painter of ... Read More...

Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

By Joseph L. Mangina In Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster movie Oppenheimer, the renowned physicist (played by Cillian Murphy) is twice heard quoting religious texts. One of these is the passage from th... Read More...

The Ethical Problem With AI Might Be Different Than You Think

By Chip Russell In light of the recent position taken by the Roman Catholic Church on the ethics and use of Artificial Intelligence, and the contrasting dearth of conversation in the Episcopal Church about t... Read More...

The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen

The Death and Life of Speculative Theology A Lonergan Idea By Ryan Hemmer Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023. Pp. 184. $95 Review by Eugene R. Schlesinger In our context of urgency and uproar, fe... Read More...

Coleridge: Shane McCrae’s and Wes Anderson’s Episcopal Faith; Pynchon as America’s Theologian; and Bach’s Boundless Abundance

Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Poetry Wyatt Mason profiles the acclaimed poet and practicing Episcopalian Shane McCrae on the occasion of hi... Read More...

The hope and joy of peace

The Church’s Deafening Silence Amid Ethnic Cleaning of Armenians

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

A guide to the Covenant

The Church’s Deafening Silence Amid Ethnic Cleaning of Armenians

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Frustration: Good for the Soul?

Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

On the Necessity of Transparency in Title IV Proceedings

From the Archives: The Three Sacred Ministers: An Outmoded Concept? (1965)

Remembering Life’s Journey

From the Archives: Worship in an Era of Permanent Change

From Law to Grace: The Gospel in the Holy Eucharist

Jacob’s Ladder for Christians: A Meditation Upon the Seven Sacraments

Ascension song

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev

Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

The Ethical Problem With AI Might Be Different Than You Think

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev

Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

The Ethical Problem With AI Might Be Different Than You Think

The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen

Coleridge: Shane McCrae’s and Wes Anderson’s Episcopal Faith; Pynchon as America’s Theologian; and Bach’s Boundless Abundance