Making Sense of Hell

by Dan Hitchens

The doctrine of hell is coming under particular pressure at the moment. Continue Reading »

7 Mar 2019

Evangelical Apocalypse

by Dale M. Coulter

We have to face issues of sexual abuse head on—the truth of the gospel is at stake.   Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2019

Sin Aboundeth

by Dan Hitchens

At the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »

21 Jan 2019

Cleansed and Conformed to God’s Will

by George Weigel

That the Church needs cleansing is not much in doubt as Advent 2018 dawns. Continue Reading »

28 Nov 2018

Stealing Pears

by Duane K. Caylor

Iniquity, O Lord, can be delicious:always in season, always tender, sweet,blushing, and aromatic. Not capriciousit always hangs low, begging us to eat.One night, I stripped a neighbor’s tree of pears—not grade A pears, but seconds grown for swine—taking them not because the fruit was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

God as Therapy in The Shack

by Connor Grubaugh

There is neither sin nor suffering in The Shack—only the psychotherapeutic notion of “pain,” which encapsulates them both. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2017

Sin in a Time of Accompaniment

by Aaron Taylor

If we tried translating Verlaine’s spiritual writing into the language of accompaniment and integration, we would be exchanging great religious art for soulless bureaucratic jargon. Continue Reading »

19 Dec 2016

Mister Bossy

by Brian Doyle

I think that was the first time in my entire life that I understood that sin was real. Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2016

Sex and Sin in Protestant America

by Joshua Mitchell

The now infamous second presidential debate was a spectacle that few decent Americans want to witness again. It was also a spectacular one-act recapitulation of the four-hundred-year-long drama of sex and sin in Protestant America. Continue Reading »

25 Oct 2016

A Distinction without Discipline

by Dan Hitchens

If Crosby’s reform were enacted, priests would have to judge the souls of their flock. The remarried would be divided into those whose lives have a Dostoevskian tragic resonance, and those who are merely “common adulteresses.” This cruel charade would collapse before it began. Continue Reading »

30 Sep 2016