Several years ago, James Mumford brought to my attention a passage from an essay by George Orwell. I was struck by it then and am struck by it still. The essay is titled simply, “A Hanging.” Orwell had served in a British police force in Burma at a time when Britain was still a colonial power. . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t set your expectations by this book’s academic imprint. Being God’s Image is, as the BibleProject’s Tim Mackie rightly describes it, “accessible.” Expect lots of exclamation points, but the author’s enthusiasm is generally infectious, not nauseating. Joy is her . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2009, one of Google’s self-driving cars came to an intersection with a four-way stop. It came to a halt and waited for other cars to do the same before proceeding through. Apparently, that is the rule it was taught—but of course, that is not what people do. So the robot car got completely . . . . Continue Reading »
Beauty is an affirmation of our shared human dignity. It reminds us of life’s goodness in an age of transgressive narcissism and repudiation of the past. Continue Reading »
I cannot help but recognize in John Paul II a public theologian with a message relevant to our twenty-first-century situation. Continue Reading »
The Hanukkah candles glisten through the winter, signaling that we need to see beyond mere utility, to discover in others an inalienable dignity. Continue Reading »
The conversation at Synod-2019 drinks more deeply from the wells of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Margaret Mead than from the living waters of biblical revelation. Continue Reading »
When all our morality is relative, so too is our justice. Continue Reading »
Any attempt to revive the failed conservative consensus that preceded Trump would be misguided and harmful to the right. Continue Reading »
After the 2016 election, when white working-class voters turned out for Donald Trump, the New York Times and the Washington Post sent their reporters to the hinterlands of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to see just what had happened. And off they went, like D.C. commuters sent . . . . Continue Reading »
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