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If one strips away all of the free market propaganda that Ryan uses, what he's thinking about is rather simple. Be warned.

I celebrate having been a priest. Maybe what I am really celebrating is a pope who cares about the poor like Horace McKenna did.

Problems with faith cross religious boundaries. Here are the fruits of a conversation that I’ve been conducting, with my friend and in my mind, for a long time.

"Denial" comes off as preachy, obvious, and severely limited; it gets the basics of the story told, but little more. Even the stronger moments fall strangely flat.

Barack Obama may not be leaving office with the successor he wanted, but he could do a service by explaining why the U.S. hasn't rescued Syria, and why it shouldn't.

Readers respond to David Bentley Hart's essay on how the early Christians viewed money, and Matthew Boudway’s view of redemption in Cormac McCarthy's work.

"St. Patrick, never leave me in the lurch, / swimming in Irish whiskey.  Toward my perch"

"In a small town, people are / who they are, no getting away / from what the eighth-grade teacher thinks"

Hans Boersma’s "Sacramental Preaching" places us in the drama of scripture, while Daniel James Brown’s "The Boys in the Boat" is a Depression-era melodrama.

Two books that brilliantly ask: what do we mean by “God,” and how do our minds find meaning?

Three excellent reads on the road less traveled, young women who stepped off the path and made their way, machete in hand, to a career based on their own passions.