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“By God’s Gifts and the Widow’s Faith”: An Epigram on Elijah
Been a while; new poem today. In this post, I translate Greek Anthology 1.77, on 1 Kings 17, in which Elijah is fed by…

Calvin on the Church of England – Part 3
We could say that Calvin is Puritan in personal tastes and eventual goals but that he is Anglican in basic principles and ecclesiastical polity.

Leithart on empire and Russia/Ukraine
Segments of the Christian right have flirted with a sort of schadenfreude during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The West, they believe, is so…

Channelling Augustine on the Trinity for Teens
Teaching theological grammar and the Gospel to 14-18 year olds, with Augustine's help.

Liberalism contra Secularism and Theocracy: A Reply to Mark Tooley
I recently read with interest Mark Tooley’s piece “Democracy vs Theocracy.” Tooley argues that for some “magisterial Protestants” and Catholic integralists, modernity is corrupt…