Balm for Germany?
by Cole S. AronsonGermany must stake its national honor on the welfare of the Jewish people. Continue Reading »
Cancelling Debts in Cancel Culture
by Christopher JacksonIn a culture that has given itself over to extreme moral accountability, grace and mercy will never cease to be a scandal. Continue Reading »
Did Joseph Forgive His Brothers?
by Shalom CarmyWe still claim to think well of forgiveness, but it has in fact very nearly lost its moral weight by having been translated into an act of random kindness whose chief value lies in the sense of personal release it gives us.” So writes Wilfred McClay in a recent essay, “The Strange Persistence of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Lamb in the Confessional
by Dan HitchensFor Chateaubriand, confession was both a reminder of uncomfortable truths and the remedy we are yearning for. Continue Reading »
The Butcher and Mrs. Bulstrode
by Shalom CarmyYom Kippur is coming. After forty days of special prayers and reflection, we enter into a day of repentance, resolve, supplication, and forgiveness. The center of Yom Kippur is atonement between us and God and reconciliation with our neighbors. As year follows year, there’s always the danger of . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousForgiveness, Right to Work, Shepherds and Wolves, City . . . . Continue Reading »
Forgiving Dylann Roof
by Robert BarronOn the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, twenty-one at the time, casually joined a group of African Americans gathered peacefully at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, for a Bible study. For over an hour, he participated in the discussion, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Hero in Blue
by William Doino Jr.Few New Yorkers ever have been so admired as police officer Steven McDonald—and not only because he placed himself in the line of fire. McDonald’s recent death from respiratory failure at the age of 59 brought back memories of the painful day that changed his life forever—plunging him into an . . . . Continue Reading »
Donald Trump, Man of Faith
by Matthew SchmitzChristianity is a religion of losers. To the weak and humble, it offers a stripped and humiliated Lord. . . . . Continue Reading »
Beyoncé and the Fertility of Forgiveness
by Leah Libresco SargeantThe most screenshotted sequence in Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade is “Hold Up.” After discovering her husband’s infidelity, she walks down the street smashing storefronts with a baseball bat, finally crushing a row of cars in a monster truck. Viewed alone, the song seems like a simple . . . . Continue Reading »
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