Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Uses of Clerical Scandal
When the Pope visited the United States last fall, the media indulged in a predictably frenzied examination…
The Christian University: Eleven Theses
I am honored to join in the prayer and reflection marking the inauguration of a new president…
Preaching As Though We Had Enemies
I am just postmodern enough not to trust “postmodern” as a description of our times, for it…
The Religious Right as Terrible Threat, Utter Irrelevance, or Something Else
The cover of the New Republic picture this big thick book titled The Constitution of the United…
Some of My Best Friends
Revolutions in consciousness sometimes announce themselves in minor, even trivial, ways. It was some ten or twelve…
Christianity and the West
The importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is…
Re-Viewing Vatican II
George Lindbeck, the distinguished Lutheran theologian, served from 1962 through 1965 as one of sixty “Delegated Observers”…
Gay Marriage: Reimaging Church History
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe By John Boswell Villard Books. 412 pp. $25 Ancient in origin, same-sex…
Why We Need Interreligious Polemics
The intellectual life is essentially and constitutively agonistic. It progresses almost entirely by struggle, by challenge and…
Recalling America
Since 1950 I have worked with my many sisters from around the world as one of the…
The Hipster and the Organization Man
From all appearances, it is now back in style to be critical of American individualism. Indeed, that…
Hatred Under Ice?
There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…
Appropriating the Paradox
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions by søren kierkegaard princeton university press, 181 pages, $39 Upbuilding Discourses in…
We Are Many
A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America by jack wertheimer basic books, 267 pages, $25 The slogan…
A Peculiar Little Test
Every two or three years, at a small, elite New England university, I offer a graduate-level course…
