Metanoia, Job, and Jesus Christ
The story of Job is at once ancient and immediate to us. Thousands of years divide us from the primaeval setting of this story, and yet we…
The story of Job is at once ancient and immediate to us. Thousands of years divide us from the primaeval setting of this story, and yet we…
Paul T. McLaughlin and Mark R. McMinn. A Time for Wisdom. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2022. In his 1943 poem cycle Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot…
A wise man has written a book called God or Nothing—the title a profoundly pithy expression of the primary choice we must make in our lives. Yet…
Is Star Wars more than an entertaining space opera meant to relax us after the daily grind of post-industrialized life? To answer that question, we must consider the possibility…
“No matter how esoteric an artist you are, you're still playing for an audience. If you only play to 10 people, then, maybe you're a high artist”…
Throughout the Christian world, except in Germanic-language countries, Easter is known as Passover. The Passover, of course, is a Jewish holy festival—it marks the deliverance of the…
Eugenics became a major focus of intellectual consideration in the first half of the twentieth century. While some Protestant social reformers were often enthusiastic supporters of the…
Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai. Edited by Jeffrey Bloom, Alec Goldstein, and Gil Student. New York: Kodesh Press, 2022. Let’s begin with a story. As an undergraduate…
Calvin’s Crusaders in the Wars That Made America: The Story of Nathaniel and Isabella Scudder. David T. Fisher. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2021. It has often…
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita . . . There is something telling about man’s tendency to view his life as a journey, for journeys convey…
By now, we’ve been home from California for over a week. But what an odd five days we had there! I’ll give you the condensed version. For…
As far as I can recall, it was a specific event, leading to a particular experience, that gave me the defining theme of the work I’ve done…
Your Kin-Dom Come: The Lord’s Prayer in a Global Age. William Thompson-Uberuaga. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018. Your Kin-Dom Come is a deep spiritual, theological and…
Introduction On another occasion,[1] I employed Hesiod’s contradictory characterizations of Saturn in the Theogony and Works and Days to inquire into the seeming paradox of a filicidal…
Who am I? In a poem written before his execution at Flossenbürg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer asks ‘Whom am I? This or the Other?’ He explains how…