Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“I Am the Very Model of a Modern Vicar-P’rochial”
V-P:I am the very model of a modern Vicar-P’rochial. I’ve schooling theological, from Curran to Ezekial. I…
The Churches & War in the Gulf
About the public debate preceding Operation Desert Storm, two things may be said with some confidence. First,…
The Things that Remain: An Episcopalian’s Credo
Fifteen years ordained and still serving in the parish. Still switching on the coffee at dawn Sunday…
Mortality: The Measure of Our Days
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. —King Lear For…
Honor in the University
We live in a time when ethics has become big business: medical schools hire medical ethicists, business…
Paraphrase of Some Famous Lines in Spanish Literature
I will become dust and you will become dust and ashes our tongues and ashes our eyes but, ever…
Root Cellar
Moving in the cool cellar gloom Among the dusty bulbs and withered tubers Of last year’s old dispensation, I marveled…
The Soul of the American University
Our subject is one of those peculiar phenomena taken for granted in the contemporary world but which…
The Death of Religious Higher Education
From time to time, a set of concerns reaches something like a critical mass. Familiar discontents vaguely…
Islam and Modernity
As Communism loses its menacing posture and its threat recedes globally. Western concentration is beginning to focus…
A Jewish Theological Understanding of Christianity in Our Time
It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the…
Liturgy
We kept building our steeples higher until emissions streamed to thousands of miles away, but distant lakes…
Authority in the Church: Excavations Among the Ruins
Authority is an issue that occupies a central place in current ecumenical discussion among the churches and…
The Lives of the Saints and the Pursuit of Virtue
Of the several paths that lead to virtue, the broadest and the most promising is the way…
Scene From a Living Room
In that house of quiet dying, through still sheers that turn the day to gray, only two…
