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My childhood was a big mishmosh of amateur sporting ventures. There was baseball, basketball, football, hockey, golf,…

I grew up in a place that is best known for being on the wrong side of…

William Hale White’s The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford is one of the lesser-known works of Victorian fiction.…

The Death of Klinghoffer: If John Adams’s Opera Isn’t Antisemitic, How Can It Fan Antisemitism? Tom Service,…

Memory is supposed to encourage and ignite hope. In Isaiah 63, however, the people of Israel remember…

Andrea Bieler and Luise Schottroff (The Eucharist) speak of “sacramental permeability.”  That phrase brings a number of…

Martin Noth claims that historical accounts in the Old Testament arose from cultic contexts and creedal statements.…

Lynn Hunt doesn’t think much of Jonathan Israel’s latest, Revolutionary Ideas. She charges that Israel’s intellectual history lacks…

Sometimes in parish ministry there are encounters with parishioners that leave one simply gasping, frustrated beyond comprehension,…

Thanks to Real Clear Religion, I was alerted to someone named Sarah Moon at Patheos, blogging in high dudgeon…

In Two Michigan Villages, a Higher Calling Is Often Heard Christina Capecchi, The New York Times Here’s…

I’m in Rome this week, where the Center for Law and Religion is co-hosting its third international…

Andrew Shepherd travels some ways with Levinas and Derrida in his The Gift of the Other, but like…

According to Eric Costanzo’s study of John Chrysostom’s theology of alms (Harbor for the Poor), John considered…

Robin Parry’s Worshipping Trinity, now in its second edition, is a solid overview of Trinitarian theology and its…