For two extraordinary authors and friends, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, WWI deepened their moral and spiritual convictions.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called it “the most terrible August in the history of the world.” He was lamenting the opening weeks of August 1914, the beginning of the Great War.

Let’s be realistic: do most people see any connection between historic Christianity and the world around them? What stands out instead is a collective amnesia about the spiritual foundations of modern life.

The success of Islamic extremists in Iraq is due to the failure of modern Islam to reconcile its deepest beliefs with the principle of religious freedom.

Perhaps the most important remark in President Obama’s speech in Poland this week, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of its democratic revolution, was the least noticed by commentators. “The victory of 1989,” Mr. Obama said, “was not inevitable.”

From the onset of hostilities, writes Philip Jenkins in “The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade,” this was a conflict infused with religious themes and ambitions.

Christians around the world today, as they have for two millennia, pause to ponder the meaning of Good Friday for their lives. Believers see in the crucifixion of Jesus the justice and mercy of God on behalf of mankind.

This op-ed marking the death of C.S. Lewis on November 22, 1963 ran 10 years ago today in “The New York Times.”

President Obama’s plan to launch a military strike against Syria because of its deadly use of chemical weapons signals a moment of both clarity and contradiction.

We may never fully understand how it was that Antoinette Tuff persuaded a young man who appeared at her elementary school armed with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition to lay down his weapon.