2014

New Year’s Day has never been my favorite day off. What does it in fact celebrate? July 4th,…

The recent news of GDP growth indicates that the United States has turned a corner, but that…

Here’s something a little different for this blog—a holiday recipe. The Armenian Christmas Pudding, or anooshaboor (“sweet…

I usually learn about the music that has been released any given year via the end-of-year music…

Christoph Schwobel’s contribution to Justification in a Post-Christian Society is characteristically grand. Exploring what contribution Lutheranism can make…

Israel’s priests did not inherit land. Many lived in cities and they possessed the land immediately surrounding.…

Christoph Schwobel’s analysis of promising (Justification in a Post-Christian Society) opens out into a discussion of theology…

At an evangelical gathering on a New Year’s Eve, someone stood to announce that he wanted to…

Dr. Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is best known these days for…

Exactly one year ago I suggested that we read through Augustine’s City of God in 2014. I’m happy…

“We have an altar, from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. For…

In his study of Calvin’s Company of Pastors, Scott Manetsch estimates that “just under 5 percent of all…

While I was attending a professional development workshop for nearly two-hundred teachers several weeks ago, a particularly…

The proposal of Cardinal Walter Kasper about the possibility of remarried Catholics to receive communion has attracted…

From Foreign Policy, a moving essay on how Iraqi Christians are observing this Christmas season. Last month,…