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In a few places, Leviticus uses the Hebrew word adam to refer to “any person.” Why adam?…

I said on Twitter earlier today that one nice thing about Darren Aronofsky’s new Noah movie is…

The Danger of “What This Really Means”Derek Rishmawy, Gospel Coalition The Daily Routines of Historical FiguresR.J., Info…

Those of us who are Catholics have had a rough few years. Well, make that a rough…

You wouldn’t know as you slogged through his impenetrable prose, but Husserl’s turn to phenomenology was, Jonathan…

Last week at Slate, Mike Pesca assured us that,  Montgomery Burns notwithstanding, steeplers aren’t necessarily evil. Steepling is…

Historically, “aesthetics” has had an accidental relationship to art. Aesthetics, from aesthesis, referred to perception through senses.…

I state a thesis: Dostoevsky is a polyphonic hedgehog. The subthesis is that Tolstoy is a monologic…

John is so subtle that we nearly miss it. Jesus says, “While I am in the world,…

One of the most amusing contributions to the early modern debate on the origins of language came…

Belief in God is natural, argues Justin Barrett in Born Believers. His is not a theological or philosophical…

Jonathan Ree’s delightful I See A Voiceglances at Enlightenment-era efforts to work out analogies between color and musical…

We don’t hear sounds, Heidegger said. That’s an abstraction. What we hear are things making sounds –…

Voice has often been seen as expression, as the coming into public space of something within. Given…

I have always understood the need for theology based on the admonition of Paul’s Epistles, but I…