Essay

May 14, 2026 Essay

Topics:

• Gender
• Labour
• Technology

The Labour of Presence

Women’s work in a world of artificial intelligence.

May 7, 2026 Essay

Topics:

• Culture
• History
• Religion

An Alphabet for Theophany

Armenian letters are a threshold for participating in the sacred.

May 7, 2026 Essay

Topics:

• Imagination
• Relationship
• Remembering

Dreaming the Door Unsealed

The ark of an American-Ukrainian friendship across borders, tables, and war.

Apr 30, 2026 Essay

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Institutions
• Religion

Written on Our Doorposts

A rabbi on the Jewish civic theology of imago Dei.

Apr 30, 2026 Essay

Topics:

• Economics
• History
• Religion

Jesus Saves. Does He Invest?

The pursuit of wealth in communities of faith was—and is—rarely just temporal.

Apr 9, 2026 Essay, New from Comment The Understory

Topics:

• Arts
• History
• Public Theology

The Praying Woman of NATO

At world’s end, the enduring dance of prayer.

Mar 12, 2026 Essay The Anti-Human

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• History
• Public Life

Denial and the Evasion of Empathy

The price of willful cultural forgetting is our humanity.

Mar 12, 2026 Essay The Anti-Human

Topics:

• Cultural Renewal
• Family
• Public Theology

Better Babies

Natality’s stand against ideology.

Mar 12, 2026 Essay The Anti-Human

Topics:

• Community
• Death
• Policy

Fear and Suffering in the Age of MAiD

Reflections from a Canadian public policy researcher.

Mar 12, 2026 Essay The Anti-Human

Topics:

• Cultural Renewal
• History
• Technology

AI as Christian Heresy

How we mediate the real is how we meditate on the voice of God.