James K.A. Smith wants to focus on the creeds, not sexuality. But there’s more to it than that. In contrast to this ideal, Smith says these terms have been reduced from this creedal basis to a single ...

The other day, I read Carl Trueman's piece in First Things titled "David French And The Future Of Orthodox Protestantism". Nowhere in the short essay is "orthodox Protestantism" defined. In the ...

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Like many other American Jews, Sen. Joseph Lieberman practices what has become known as Modern Orthodoxy – meaning that he embraces rather than denies the modern secular world. The new Democratic vice ...

In Listening to Ecclesiastes, Rabbi Ysoscher Katz dismisses in the course of six sentences the rulings and rationales issued against the ordination of women as Orthodox rabbis. Yes, the rulings of ...

Last week brought a Vatican appointment that didn't exactly cut in the direction of what I call "affirmative orthodoxy," meaning Pope Benedict XVI's strong defense of the faith coupled with a gentle, ...