Archbishop Welby brought admirable qualities to the seat of Canterbury. He stood in a marked contrast to his charming, if somewhat other-worldly, polymath of a predecessor, Rowan Williams. Here was plain-speaking man who came from the world of business. When he was installed in 2013, this wa...
I find myself largely in agreement with these initial responses. In my opinion, the authors resorted to caricaturing their opponents, they problematically reified “critical religion” as a “methodological school,” and they did not engage with many of the existing conversations about the body of...
trying to gain a little more time with his philosophical filibuster. But knowing the poet’s faith, we may assume that Time is mistaken. What the poet craves is not more time, buteternity: freedom from temporality itself, in “the place where God doth dwell” beyond the binaries of here ...
All of us, of course, would reserve “most precious” for our deepest relationships—with God, lovers and friends. But it would violate the integrity of their otherness to deem any of these to bepossessions. So I must look elsewhere for my answer to the question. Good health comes to min...
Americans For Truth renews its Halloween tradition of delivering some very scary – or at least highly disturbing — quotes from LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) activists and publications. (There is also a frighteningly evil quotation from LGBT “straight ally” Eve Ensler.) Whether it...
” If that be too extravagant for you (e.g., those of you enamored with Hume), consider that Hobbes was “the first great philosopher to write in English.” May himself, by my lights, is our foremost philosopher of international criminal law and justice (he writes in other areas as ...
or join the Alcoholics Anonymous. The first two responses obey the pleasure principle, the last the reality principle. Many addicts have two strong desires: the desire to consume and the desire to stop consuming. In the struggle for self-control, now the one, now the other desire seems to ...
I’ve received some responses to this post in one form or another that bear acknowledging. Validity of using the Protestant Bible to answer the question One respondent claimed that the Protestant Bible is not a valid source to answer the original question about deviations between the Biblical Sata...
“Why did it take me so many decades to see this breathtaking phenomenon?” A few minutes later, when the light began to return, I thought, “When’s the next one?” And even if I never see another eclipse, the two minutes of pure wonder in between those thoughts will live in me ...
Seeking some guidance from my library, I pulled out a book published a few years ago:The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. The author, Alan Jacobs, examins the responses of Christian intellectuals to the violent chaos of the Second World War. What did some ...