Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
God Become Baby
The Gospels obviously tell the life story of a human being. Jesus was born. He lived in…
After Dinner, a Beheading
November 2015 will be remembered as the month in which the world woke up. The year began…
Why Tolerate Religion?
Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian Leiter princeton university press, 216 pages, $45.00 Brian Leiter’s Why Tolerate Religion? is…
Suffering Poorly
I am glad you feel you are ‘standing still’ in your spiritual life. I should be still…
Mercy in a World Gone Mad
The day after the brutal terrorist attacks in France by ISIS, French President Hollande gave his country’s…
ECT at Twenty
From the introduction to Evangelicals and Catholics Together at Twenty: Vital Statements on Contested Topics (Brazos, 2015),…
Overlooked Philosophy
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II by…
The Road to Nostra Aetate
Of all the documents of Vatican II, few have been more discussed and written about than Nostra…
Enlightenment Bible, Church Bible
The following is taken from a paper that was delivered at a conference sponsored by the Center…
Charity or Philanthropy?
The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity by jeremy beeruniversity of pennsylvania, 134 pages, $19.95…
Thin Places
The following is a meditation for All Saints Day presented at Christchurch in Montgomery, Alabama. Several years…
Nostra Aetate Fifty Years On
It was, on the face of it, a minor theological gesture, yet it brought about one of…
In Praise of Wakes
Going to a wake is always unpleasant. For one thing the departed, once embalmed, always looks like…
A Tale of Two Cities—And of Two Churches
You will recall the lapidary opening of Dickens’s famous novel of London and Paris in the period…
Mirror of Magistrates
For Christians, 1 and 2 Samuel are “history.” For Jews, they are among the writings of the…
