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Divine Liturgist
God speaks and light appear. He separates light and darkness, assigns names to each, and judges the…
First Links — 11.20.15
What Polls Can’t Tell Us about Faith in America Jody Avirgan, Emma Green, Leah Libresco, FiveThirtyEight English…
Remembering Brett Foster
Sad news from last week: Wheaton College mourns the death of Professor Brett Foster, who has been…
Incarnation in Exile
Ezekiel’s initial vision is of the Lord’s chariot-throne, coming with whirling wheels and a sound like thunder,…
Baptized Education
The Christian school has to function as a fruit of the Christian church. That does not mean…
Rites of the Stadium
Modern sports are not simple competition between the two teams. If they were only about physical competition, games…
Refugees
In 1975 I decided I was going to get me a refugee, and I did. A lot…
Corporeal Justice at Princeton
Friends, You may have seen the news of Princeton’s courageous decision to rename the “masters” of its residential…
The Revenge of the Coddled: An Interview with Jonathan Haidt
I recently had a chance to speak with Dr. Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist and professor of business…
Crisis, Non-Sectarian Style?
To many Americans, Christians complaining about our culture sound whiny, self-interested, and sectarian. We yell, “Fire! Cultural…
Amnesiac Modernity
A wonderful quotation from Paul Connerton’s How Societies Remember, recently noted by Rod Dreher: “Under the conditions of…
Wind of the Spirit
From the first moments of the creation, the Spirit of God has been working in the world…
Saving Willy Loman
The focus on the increase in death rates for white Americans between ages 45-54 in the media…
Ezekiel in John’s Gospel
John’s gospel differs in many ways from the three “synoptic” gospels. John begins with the majestic prologue…
Eros in Iberia
Early twentieth-century Spain is often characterized as Catholic-conservative, repressive, backward. In Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939,…
