Wrestling with Jordan Peterson
The pop psychologist’s new book is not likely to light the fire of faith in any young fan
Religion
Friday
Thursday
A prayer in Ukraine
At the National Prayer Breakfast, religious and political leaders unite to pray for an end to their people’s suffering
A pilgrimage to St. Francis’s holy sanctuary at La Verna
There’s a fairytale quality that permeates this land
Monday
Chicken soup for the souls: a feast for the dead
In Britain and Ireland, children and poor people would go door to door on November 2, singing and asking for soul cakes
Saturday
Catherine Nixey’s Heresy is a joy to read
Nixey takes us on a tour across the early centuries of Christianity
Thursday
A new and compelling study of the life of the iconic rebel Nat Turner
Anthony Kaye seeks to reframe the life of the famous slave rebel in the context of his religious beliefs
Devil in the detail
How do we recognize the real manifestation of evil in the world? Two new books set out to answer this question and prove that it is a timely one
Monday
Donald Trump ‘the anointed one’ at the Road to Majority Conference
On the ground with the Faith and Freedom Coalition
Wednesday
An incisive memoir of life in the cloisters
Catherine Coldstream refuses to be bitter and Cloistered is all the more beautiful, and holy, as a result
Thursday
‘Maybe I have the healing I need’: speaking to Father Paul Wierichs
The former FBI chaplain ministered to the dead and dying on 9/11. Terminal cancer means his time is coming, too
The divine Dalí and his ‘Christ’
In his imperfect, weird way, the artist was trying to understand something so deeply beautiful in itself, mere created beings cannot fully grasp it
How eggs became the symbol of Easter
As the living chicken breaks out of the egg, so the immortal Christ breaks the seal of the tomb
Friday
America’s professor: the afterlife of C.S. Lewis
He is the myth-maker, the scholar, the convert, the defender of the faith, the rebel, the writer and the teacher
Thursday
Spooky season’s religious revival
This year’s horror movies lean on supernatural evils
Friday
Will Orthodox Judaism accept female rabbis?
One rabbi’s decision to ordain a woman inspired others to follow suit — and triggered an apoplectic backlash
Thursday
Knock at the Cabin is a better-than-average Shyamalan film
It packs an emotional wallop, though its religious motifs leave something to be desired
Tuesday
‘Hail Satan’: a Virginia town at war over After School Satan Club
Christians and Satanists clash at the Chesapeake School Board meeting
Sunday
The Christian nationalism boogeyman
The left’s latest panic has obscured the GOP’s rising secularism
Tuesday
Has the American novel abandoned God?
Our literary life today speaks of a crisis of faith
Monday
How LSD helped me find God
Historically, many psychedelics were used as divinatory tools
