Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals
“When you say ‘hill,’” the Queen interrupted, “I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d…
Eden Park
this is not the woodsand wildlife is nottwo chipmunks scamperingacross the sidewalk the trees stand herein landscaped…
Repent Ye!
Jesus is coming repent Ye!reads the scrawled signof this man who is not John the Baptistbut who…
The Achievement of Jaroslav Pelikan
In 1971 the University of Chicago Press published The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600), the first…
Hairy Men and Smooth Men
My brother Esau is an hairy man, but I am a smooth man,” Jacob said. There have…
Editorial: Christians, Jews, and Anti-Semitism
Call it a public service. When National Review devoted almost an entire issue to William F. Buckley’s…
What I Saw at the American Academy of Religion
The American Academy of Religion, in its statement of purpose, calls itself “an inclusive learned society and…
The Pizza Theory
Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by jeffrey burton russell praeger, 117 pages, $12.95 Revisionist…
Mere Christianity
Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics by Gilbert Meilaender University of Notre Dame Press, 211…
Reason Public and Private: The Pannenberg Project
There are numerous obstacles to making the connections between religion and public life. For some moderns, a…
Church and World in Christian Antiquity
The End of Ancient Christianity by robert markus cambridge university press, 258 pages, $49.50 In fourth-century Syria…
Evangelism’s Premier Prophet
A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story by william martin william morrow, 735 pages, $25 The…
The Earnest Methodist
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: Paladin of Liberal Protestantism by robert moats miller abingdon press, 624 pages, $29.95…
Confessions of a Rootless Cosmopolitan Jew
I, the grandson of devout Orthodox Jews, am watching my younger daughter being confirmed in the Lutheran…
Blue Ridge Modernity Blues
It’s a mild winter evening in the Blue Ridge mountains. The faint sounds of banjo and fiddle…
