Joshua Whitfield

October 10, 2021

Homily: The Car and the Parish

A century ago, the big issue, for Catholics and Protestants alike, was the automobile. The Spanish Flu, of course, was a problem too, killing millions as it did. Yet it was the automobile that was a more enduring threat some thought, more of a game changer.
October 8, 2021

Essay: Shedding Tears for Royal Tenenbaum

October 2, 2021

Homily: The Only Sort of Love God Is

It’s unlikely you’ve heard of John Beukels, the charismatic Anabaptist leader of the German city of Münster in the 1530s, from the early years of the Reformation.
September 24, 2021

Homily: What We Do With Truth

There’s a story by the great Lebanese writer, Kahlil Gibran, called “John the Madman.”
September 18, 2021

Homily: That Wilder Christianity We Want

My first instinct is to blame lawyers, but I know it’s not all their fault.
September 15, 2021

Column: On the Heartbeat Act

Let’s remember, it’s a kind of war.