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Smearing Sexual Orientation Change
Yesterday I had the good pleasure to join a courageous group of people for a conference entitled…
Delighting in Death?
Last week I delivered a guest lecture at a Christian liberal arts college entitled “Each Day Dies…
First Links—4.15.15
Is Christianity Dark Enough for Millennials? Emma Green, The Atlantic C. S. Lewis’s Wit Michael Ward, School…
Newman and Vatican II
That Blessed John Henry Newman was one of the great influences on Vatican II is “a commonplace,”…
Essence, Energies, and the Presence of God
If the infinite God is to be present within a finite creation, writes David Bentley Hart (Beauty…
Father of Reconstructionism
The name of R.J. Rushdoony, the polymathic Reformed theologian, historian, and activist, has appeared with increasing frequency…
Sabbath Joy
The prophecy of Habakkuk closes with a lovely poem of joy in the midst of adversity and…
Pedagogy and Counter-Pedagogy in Genesis
Before Yahweh is an object of worship, He is a teacher, issuing an invitation to Adam to…
Pope Francis on the Armenian Genocide
Last Sunday in Rome, Pope Francis celebrated a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to commemorate the 100th…
It’s Getting Harder to Listen
One of the first modes of critical thinking is knowing what others think and say. If we’re…
First Links—4.14.15
The Quest for Community in the Age of Obama Ross Douthat, The Imaginative Conservative ‘They,’ the Singular…
Inevitable Denominations?
Rex Koivisto (One Lord, One Faith) argues that the problem of church unity has less to do…
The Addict as Modern Prophet
Kent Dunnington (Addiction and Virtue) observes that what Peter Berger called “the heretical imperative” sharpens questions about…
Chiasm of Love
Marion Gibbs and Sidney Johnson present a sensitive analysis of the poetry of Gottfried of Strassburg’s Tristan…
Apocalyptic Mouths
“Mouth” (stoma) appears 22 times in Revelation. Mostly, things come out of mouths, rather than going in.…
