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Ascending and Descending
The description of the angels on Jacob’s ladder has long been a puzzle: They are “ascending and…
How To Study Religion
Tomoko Masuzawa was startled to discover that one of the “precepts” of modern religious studies was “Thou…
Pope Francis at Independence Hall
Philadelphia turned up in force for Pope Francis’s address from Independence Hall. American regalia surrounded the Pope,…
First Links — 9.28.15
Pope Francis Called For More Work From Priests, But 20% Of Parishes Don’t Even Have One Leah…
Inner-Trinitarian Conversation
Matthew Bates argues in The Birth of the Trinity that Trinitarian theology emerged from prosopological reading of the…
What Congregations Do
Mark Chaves observes (Congregations in America) that it is difficult to say what congregations do, and that…
Consecrating the House
When the seven bowl angels appear, the heavenly temple is filled with the smoke of God’s glory…
Before Unbelievers
Members of the Corinthian church were filing suits against one another before the Roman courts, and Paul…
Francis at the United Nations
It was a very good speech, much more forceful and substantive than his address to Congress yesterday. He…
First Links — 9.25.15
Embracing Our Limits: The Lessons of Laudato Si’ Rowan Williams, Commonweal How Marcuse Made Today’s Students Less Tolerant…
What We Don’t Know
In an essay on “The Obvious” (published in The Dialectics of Liberation), R. D. Laing reflects on the…
Are Hispanics Assimilating?
In his Christians at the Borders, Guatemalan-American theologian M. Daniel Carroll addresses Samuel Huntington’s claim that the newest…
Modernizing Time
During the latter part of the nineteenth century, writes Vanessa Ogle (The Global Transformation of Time), “saw…
Atonement Inverted
The word “bowl” (Greek, phiale) is used twelve times in Revelation, almost all of them in chapters…
What Francis Said—And Didn’t Say—To Congress
It was a modest speech, one generous to the American experience but lacking in the sharpness this…
