Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Baylor at the Crossroads
I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in…
Divorce and Communion
There were only two occasions in my life as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in…
What Comes After the Synod
Whatever Pope Francis does in the wake of the Synod on the Family, we have a new…
Roland on Dreams
It was, I believe, the third time that the small, hard, moist rubber ball struck my forehead…
When Teachers Don’t Matter
It is only 2 p.m. on a mild afternoon in February, but the hallways are quiet and…
The Saints and All of Us
Written from Rome: Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod-2015, something genuinely new in the life…
Evangelicals and Animals
Ribs are getting harder to eat. I was gnawing on some nice tender bones in Memphis recently,…
A Family of Saints
If there was one serene moment amidst all the ecclesiastical discord at the recent Synod in Rome,…
Enlightenment Thought and Paying for Lightbulbs
Someone wrote a letter recently to the editor of a denominational magazine, proposing that since the staff…
Sex and Tradition
In a few carefully argued pages in his recently translated The Crisis of Modernity, the Italian Catholic philosopher…
School Shootings and the Book of Job
Last Thursday morning, I was teaching a freshman honors seminar in Newberg, Oregon. We were discussing Genesis…
Issues Beneath Issues at Synod 2015
Written from Rome: Since Pope Francis announced that two Synods would examine the contemporary crisis of marriage…
The Moral Universe of Hannibal
A woman lovingly plucks a dead pheasant. A man places a human arm on a cutting board…
The Mystery of Eternal Love
One of the most common charges leveled against Christians in the early church was that they were…
Synod on the Family
The following is a preview segment of R. R. Reno’s “The Public Square” from our upcoming November…
