Hollywood’s "Exorcist" industry is alive and well: The sixth film in a series begun in 1973 is out and available to stream today. The Exorcist: Believer is not a particularly good movie, but it ...

I was relaxing at a coffee shop recently when up walked Jimmy Knechtel. He grabbed a chair and, frowning, thumped a few ...

"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." —Erich Fromm Questions ...

Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by considering a strong argument against religious faith, against the existence ...

Q. I am 18 years old, and recently the “problem of evil” really threw me for a loop and caused me a lot of pain. I am asking for your help in understanding it a bit more. Why did God, who is ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024. Over the last six decades, a certain phrase has ...

What does it mean to have faith, to believe in a God who is present when it seems like power and greed inevitably win? In the face of these kinds of questions it often feels like we need to address ...