Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
God, the Devil, and The King’s Speech
Just after my wife and I watched the new hit movie, “The King’s Speech,” a friend asked…
Thomas Merton and Confucianism
I’m not sure when I first met Tom Merton. It was probably in the middle of my…
The Business of Medicine
White Coat, Black Hat:Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by carl elliott beacon, 213 pages, $21.95…
Blurring Sexual Boundaries
The definition of gender-related discrimination and of “hate crimes” is becoming ever more imaginative on both sides…
Late Night
Late orange light reflected from the lake Leaps up into the mountain’s shade, And suddenly a crouching…
Govett’s Leap
Looking across to Bridal Veil Falls, You feel your weight’s Free will against the fence Urging you…
Reading the Bible with the Reformers
For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked,…
Dear Juan de la Cruz
I gave my class your “dark night” poem to read, not telling them who wrote it. They…
Real Death, Real Dignity
He was a dignified man suffering all the embarrassing ways a hospice deals with the body’s failure…
The Dialectic and the Double Helix
While a graduate student in history in the 1990s, I once asked a German friend what she…
Whig History at Eighty
It is odd that in the many recent discussions about what it might mean to pursue a…
The Cosmopolitan Nature of Pentecostalism
As a movement firmly planted in the revivalist tradition of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, global Pentecostalism…
Eleven
players on a soccer team stars in Joseph’s second dream odd reversible and prime dimensions (counting space…
Faith and Responsibility
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell Simon…
A Jihad Against Anti-Semitism
The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism by Tarek Fatah Mcclelland…
