A few years ago John Piper created some controversy over his declaration that Christianity had a masculine feel. The claim raised several issues, one of which was the way a divorce of theological reflection from Christian tradition leads to a lopsided and impoverished theology. The impoverished . . . . Continue Reading »
Kenneth Miller’s Laetare Medal
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
Against Gratitude
Jessica Griffith, Good Letters
Wrongdoing Only Needs “Working With”
Theodore Dalrymple, Salisbury Review
A Love of Ruins
Evelyn Toynton, Prospect
POTUS and Pope
George Weigel, National Review
Is opposition to same-sex marriage at all like opposition to interracial marriage? One refrain in debates over marriage policy is that laws designating marriage as exclusively the union of male and female are today’s equivalent of bans on interracial marriage. Some further argue that . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s big enough for all of us, if we’re brave and humble enough to love. Continue Reading »
The Cistercians Are Back at Zirc
Randall Smith, Catholic Thing
A Timeline of Revolutions
Lapham’s Quarterly
Big Data, Big Mistake?
Tim Harford, Financial Times
“Everything Should Be Open to Question”
Tim Black, Spiked Online
Are Evangelicals adopting tradition for its style or substance? Continue Reading »
At Night We Walk in Circles
Charles Carman, Books & Culture
Still in the Grip of the Great War
Economist
Buried by the State: Forgotten Lives
Matt Trueman, Guardian
A Few Thoughts on Identity Discourse
Rokhl Kafrisson, Jewschool
The Fault Lines Before the Evangelical Earthquake
Trevin Wax, Kingdom People
A few years back, you may recall a “Beer Summit,” held at the White House, where President Obama served as mediator between a notable college professor from Harvard who was wrongfully arrested by a local police officer due to the suspicion that he may have been involved in burglaries. . . . . Continue Reading »
J. R. R. Tolkien begins The Silmarillion with Ilúvatar (the “Father of All”) engaged in the act of creation. Creation unfolds according to the theme of the Great Music that Ilúvatar inspires in each of the Ainur (“Holy Ones”) through the Imperishable Flame. For . . . . Continue Reading »
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