If we look back in the Gospel of Mark, the driving into the desert is preceded by baptism with water. John, whose primary tool of conversion was water, is, like the victims of ISIS, arrested without explanation, only to become a victim of seemingly meaningless violence.

Death Comes for the Deconstructionist is a novel for our cultural time and place, but it also transcends it. It will be discussed long after deconstruction has killed itself and the humanities.

Szybist clearly struggles with what the Annunciation means for her. It seems to simultaneously empower and bind contemporary women with the high standards that it sets.

Michel Tournier’s The Four Wise Men proposes that four central domains of human life seem dignified enough to merit a spiritual recalibration: love, art, politics … and food.

Artur Rosman interviews Image Journal’s Gregory Wolfe about contemporary religious literature and how literary critics, even religious ones, are failing to recognize and appreciate it.

Paul Elie’s narrative about Catholic literature misses the mark; great Catholic novels and poetry exist outside of popular critical circles.

The Church in Hong Kong is intimately connected with the Church in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Beijing Spring saw the Church in Hong Kong become a “bridge church” between the Vatican and the PRC. The question is, a bridge to which church?

Part II of Artur Rosman’s interview with Justin Tse about the Hong Kong riots, religion, and the Catholic Church.