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Calling Out Our Own
It’s not often these days that we can note positive developments concerning religious liberty—especially when it comes…
On “Christian Nations”
It used to be the case that Americans referred unselfconsciously to their country as “a Christian nation.”…
So You Believe in “Marriage Equality”? Why Not For throuples?
The story of a female throuple in Massachusetts (with a baby on the way) provides further confirmation,…
First Links — 4.25.14
What Pope John Paul II Could Have Learned from Sinead O’Connor Michael Brendan Dougherty, the Week How…
Unity and Mission
The Princeton Proposal on Christian Unity, published in 2003 as In One Body Through the Cross has some…
Tribal Theology
The Princeton Proposal (40-1) observes a shift in the basis and nature of division from the Reformation to…
Local Grace
In his introduction to Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, James KA Smith sums up Taylor’s argument that the…
Encounter with Orthodoxy
John P. Burgess of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary spent a year with his family in Russia and recounts…
Confessional and Catholic?
Willem van Asselt’s Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism provides a superb overview of the history of Reformed Scholasticism, as…
Via Negativa
Benjamin Kaplan’s Divided By Faith is primarily a revisionist history of the rise of toleration in early modern…
Adoption, God’s Love, and the Region of Unlikeness
As an adopted child I experienced a slow, unfolding consciousness of dissimilarity. It began with an awareness…
First Links — 4.24.14
The Drinking Age Is Past Its Prime Camille Paglia, Time China on Path to be Largest Christian…
Lifted
Lifts might not have changed everything, but they changed a lot, according to Andreas Berard’s Lifted: A Cultural…
Red, Black, Gray
How did religion survive and revive in China? Answering that question in Religion in China, Fenggang Yang sketches…
The Tragedy of Saul
The narrative of Saul is a superb study in the psychology of envy. Saul becomes enraged at…
