Dissent and Mormon Mission
by Gregory Pine, O.P.A policy of strict confessional delimitation contributes to a vibrant missionary impetus. Continue Reading »
A policy of strict confessional delimitation contributes to a vibrant missionary impetus. Continue Reading »
Stratford Caldecott’s Conversion Story
Dwight Longenecker, Standing on My Head
The Reformicons: A Discussion
William A. Galston, Henry Olsen, Ramesh Ponnuru, et. al., Brookings
How Theology Departments Diminished Themselves into Irrelevance
Randall B. Smith, Crisis
The Mexican Plaza and the Transformation of Culture
Jose Bernardi, Marginalia
When Science Was Populist
Jonathan Rose, Literary Review
How I Became a Knausgaard Truther
Casey N. Cep, Pacific Standard
Mommy Police With Real Handcuffs
Megan McArdle, BloombergView
On the (Very Smelly) Trail of the Skunk Takeover
Christopher Kemp, Outside
Junglecare
Dave Seminara, The Morning News
Did Teilhard de Chardin Ever Ask the Beasts?
Matt Mazewski, Reasonably Moderate
Nova et Vetera has published a detailed analysis of proposals to revise Catholic Pastoral practice for the divorced and remarried.Cardinal Kasper has floated the idea of shifting from canonical adjudication of annulments to a more open-ended process of pastoral discernment that will allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion under certain circumstances. Continue Reading »
The North American Lutheran Church’s (NALC) application to join the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has not been approved. But did the LWF follow its own rules?
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A popular argument against the existence of God is what some call divine hiddenness: “If God exists, why doesn’t he make his existence more obvious, such that it could not be doubted?” But what atheists take to be a strike against God may prove just the opposite, and in fact the very pattern of human flourishing. Continue Reading »
Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion & Democracy has responded to my take on the rise of Protestant perfectionism in the past several decades with a plea for help from Reformed Christians. I appreciate the response in part because I think it illustrates the challenge for Wesleyans to clarify . . . . Continue Reading »
Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry
Lorraine Daston, The Point
Israel at War with Hamas and Itself
Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
Despite Dementia, a Life of Art Continues to Thrive
Mark Sheerin, Hyperallergic
The Physicality of Prayer
Rowan Williams, New Statesman
Colleges Want Students with Character, But Can’t Measure It
Eric Hoover, Nautilus
Very rarely do we plan to think. So I’m advocating for the insertion of calendar entries lest our days get filled with tasks that crowd out the serious business of being human. Continue Reading »
Alice in Borderland
Charles Foran, The Walrus
The News is Born
Julianne Werlin, Los Angeles Review of Books
Remembering My Friend Chris Mitchell
Wesley Hill, Books & Culture
Divine Reverie: Revelation, Dream Interpretation, and Teeth in Antiquity
Sarah Bond and Matthew Neujahr, The Appendix
Fantasy and the Buffered Self
Alan Jacobs, The New Atlantis