A few years ago, when a group of students at Emory University prepared to demonstrate against a controversial speaker, I asked a senior why they wanted to do so. She had a background different from that of the typical selective school attendee, a hard-edged one, and she’d already told me that . . . . Continue Reading »
The Christian faith does not terminate in propositions about God. This conviction comes through loud and clear in James K. A. Smith’s recently completed three-volume work, Cultural Liturgies. Smith’s trilogy may be read as a friendly yet firm word of caution to his Reformed . . . . Continue Reading »
Luther’s letter “Whether One May Flee From A Deadly Plague” finds that elusive middle ground between panic and foolhardiness. Continue Reading »
In some ways, Christians this Lent are like Israel in Babylonian exile, bereft of land and temple. Continue Reading »
This is a time to turn to God, to reckon God’s gifts, to tend and cherish common responsibilities and the life given through birth, children, and parents. Continue Reading »
Once we start thinking about baptism in the matrix between old and new, our horizon broadens. Continue Reading »
Prayer is, most fundamentally, a matter of heeding a call and showing up. Continue Reading »
Lent is a kind of death, the laying bare of one’s soul through fasting, prayer, and meditation. Continue Reading »
The rise of Islamist terrorism has made once-fringe conservative parties stress their Christian identity. Continue Reading »
An interview with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. Continue Reading »
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