Mine Eyes Have Seen Thy Salvation
by Victor Lee AustinJesus’s entrance into this world would be of no importance had he not been offered up as a sacrifice for the millennially-problematic human being. Continue Reading »
Reunion on the Far Shore
by Gilbert MeilaenderHeaven,” Jonathan Edwards says in the fifteenth and last of his Charity Sermons, “is a World of Love.” In saying this, however, he did not seem to have in mind what many of us might -immediately hope for or suppose. To be sure, in one of his Miscellanies, asking himself “whether the . . . . Continue Reading »
A Proper Christian Burial
by Mark BauerleinTim Perry joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Funerals: For the Care of Souls. Continue Reading »
Sorrow and Hope on All Souls Day
by Gerald E. MurrayPraying for all the dead on November 2 is a communal act of supernatural charity by the Church Militant for the Church Suffering, praying in union with the Church Triumphant for all those being made ready for heaven. Continue Reading »
Norm Macdonald’s Spiritual Journey
by Nic RowanMacdonald may have only been dabbling in Christianity, but his criticisms of the post-Christian world were often incisive. Continue Reading »
Of Dying and Rising
by Mark BauerleinJeffrey Pulse joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Figuring Resurrection: Joseph as a Death and Resurrection Figure in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism. Continue Reading »
Foucault’s Principalities & Powers
by Angela FranksIn the late 1960s, a sociologist described French theorist Michel Foucault (1926–1984) as “a sort of frail, gnarled samurai who was dry and hieratic, who had the eyebrows of an albino and a somewhat sulfurous charm, and whose avid and affable curiosity intrigued everyone.” Claude Mauriac, . . . . Continue Reading »
Those Who Hunger and Thirst
by John WilsonDoubt and faith are intertwined in Thirst. Continue Reading »
The Limits of Politics
by Ed CondonCOVID-19 has revealed a crisis of faith, and the evidence is all around us. Continue Reading »
Beyond the Grave
by Bruno ChaouatThe idea that one can report on one’s own death is paradoxical, if not preposterous. As Epicurus wrote in his Letter to Menoeceus, “When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.” To which Woody Allen added the footnote, “I don’t mind dying . . . as long as I . . . . Continue Reading »
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