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Anglicanism on Its Knees
The Anglican Communion has nearly eighty-five million members spread around the globe. Until the mid-twentieth century, these…
Incurious Dawkins
An Appetite for Wonder:The Making of a Scientistby richard dawkinsecco, 320 pages, $27.99 Richard Dawkins’ An Appetite…
Roman Catholics and Confessional Lutherans Explore Deeper Ties
In 1976, Joseph Ratzinger”then still a professor”suggested “it might be possible to interpret [the Augsburg Confession (CA)”i.e.,…
The Sad Secular Monks
In the Atlantic, Hanna Rosin recently defended the hookup culture as essential to female success and equality. Given…
Unsustainable Liberalism
“Unsustainable Liberalism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on in…
Race Matters
Americans like to think of their history as a success story. And so, by most measures, and…
Schools of Thought
It’s not easy to answer, the simple question of where to study theology. Interests, backgrounds, convictions, and…
On War and Apocalypse
My work has often been presented as a discussion of archaic religion through comparative anthropology. Its goal…
How to Understand Politics
For some time we have taken political science for granted, as if it did not require some…
The Tyranny of the Minority
“There is strength in numbers, but there is not truth.” Leon Wieseltier is right about that. Writing…
While We’re At It
• There are these advertisements in the Times Literary Supplement for T-shirts inscribed with the words of…
While We’re At It
• Some Methodists have a website (www.theymustrepent.com) and are collecting signatures to have two fellow Methodists, George…
Anglicanism Runs Aground
The good ship Anglican, as Archbishop Robin Eames acknowledges in his preface to the Windsor Report, appears…
While We’re At It
• ‘Tis the season to once again complain about the season. There is something to be said…
The New York Intellectuals, Again
A lot of people don’t read Comment, a magazine published by the Work Research Foundation in Mississauga,…
