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Austen’s Defects?
Jane Austen has been in the news this week, what with the 200th anniversary of her death…
Cormac McCarthy’s Gnosticism
A TLS review of two books of the Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy notes the hints of holiness in his novels:…
Misrepresenting Moltmann?
In his opening essay in Christian Dogmatics, co-editor Mike Allen quotes George Hunsinger’s claim that Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg,…
Return to Paterson
Two weeks after watching, I’m still thinking about Paterson the film and the poem. A few notes:…
Coleridge on Utilitarianism
Responding to a piece defending utilitarianism by one O. P. Q. in the Morning Chronicle, Coleridge writes: …
Conservatism’s Putin Dilemma
Writing in The American Conservative, Paul Gottfried pinpoints the conservative quandary regarding Putin. On the one hand:…
Structure of Philippians
What follows is a rough structural analysis of Philippians. Rough, but perhaps it illuminates: A. Joy in…
Whose Fool?
Paul can sound like the Solomon of Proverbs: “Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men…
Locke, Wesley, Romanticism
Richard Brantley states the thesis of his 1984 Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism early in his…
The Allegory of Troilus
Troilus appears in the Iliad and Aeneid, but only in death scenes. Ancient epics don’t tell the…
David the Anti-Saul
Why does the Chronicler begin his narrative with Saul, and why with Saul’s death? As William Riley…
Paterson
Paterson (2016; directed by Jim Jarmusch) is a cinematic poem in seven stanzas, a week in the…
Sign of Victory
Bach’s Cantata 80 is an elaboration of Luther’s “Ein Feste Burg.” The second movement of the Cantata…
Crown of Hair
According to 2 Chronicles 23:11, the people put a “crown” on the head of seven-year-old Joash, the…
Infant Mortality
The Economist reports on the racial gap in American infant mortality rates: “Black babies born in America…
