The Bible: A Memoir
I identify myself as an individual across time…. And my doing this is an expression of the deep individuality that is part of the human condition –…
I identify myself as an individual across time…. And my doing this is an expression of the deep individuality that is part of the human condition –…
Does art and literature matter? In our age of vandalism and philistinism, it seems not. Activism in the name of the latest leftwing fad, “decolonizing” art and…
“Rhetoric appears, finally, as a means by which the impulse of the soul to be ever moving is redeemed.” — Richard Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric …
Grant Kaplan begins his theological essay with a seemingly innocuous postulate: the meaning of the terms "faith" and "reason," he asserts, have shifted throughout the 2,000 or…
Saint Augustine of Hippo is arguably the most influential Christian philosopher and theologian who ever lived. This is not to say he is unique among Christians; several of…
There is something amusing about the fact that America’s largest churches are all Episcopalian. Plato, in The Republic, presupposes that the height of society should be its…
It was the German Jewish philosopher and theologian Martin Buber (1878-1965) who said that “God dwells wherever we let him in.”[1] As a permanent deacon and prison…
I. Cheap grace, the gift that keeps giving Boundless and free It justifies continued sinning For its blessings flow for all eternity Grace with no corresponding cost…
Macbeth is a short play compared to the rest of Shakespeare’s masterful canon. That doesn’t take away from this masterpiece of tragedy—though it has caused some to…
“To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is…
Matthew 1 The Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ JESUS, “God with us,” who begat mankind, May your life and your words begat in us A…
I have no utensils, not a blanket. At one point I was given sheets by local people, but I gave them to a pregnant women. We feel…
While Dostoevsky was unaware of Nietzsche, Nietzsche wrote in Twilight of the Idols that Dostoevsky was the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn, having…
“To be a person is to be transcendent. We therefore know about the transcendent, God, only because we participate in that mode of being.” - David Walsh,…
The world of biblical analysis seems to have two poles in the public imagination. One popular, generally atheistic, and horribly ignorant: the gospels were written—this analysis goes—long…