Public Life
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Serving Our Hearth Gods
Having conquered cigarettes, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a campaign against sugary drinks. The…
Unsustainable Liberalism
“Unsustainable Liberalism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on in…
An Inhumane Humanities Lecture
Established in 1972, the Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual…
The Myth of Public Reason
In recent decades a consensus has emerged that religious ideas and theological notions are sectarian and private…
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…
The Stalinist Moment In Iran
Events in Iran have been riveting. The presidential vote on June 12 was rigged to ensure the…
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…
