…Lecture on the Humanities at the Kennedy Center across the river in Washington. Hearing Berry tell the story of his grandfather’s rural economic hardship in 1907 while seated in the…
…our neighbors in love. But if we consume Scripture only in selective fragments—especially if we consume it primarily while alone, seated at a desk or staring at a phone—the words…
…the skies, separating them from the waters for rains, and worked hard on the land to divide the waters into seas and the dry land into earth, where it brought…
…length the past acts of God as the powerful Divine Warrior who once turned his rage against the threatening seas, who trod the earth with fury, and brandished the naked…
…what to do with the possibility of species extinction on the table. Seated on our couch, they highlighted the ableism that was animating my despair: “Aren’t suffering and short life…
…is this season that makes these events seem appropriate. Advent teaches us that the divine does not whisper through the powers-that-be, but through the lowly, downtrodden, the no-bodies. “In the…
…the conclusion of his contribution, “not so much an alternative or ‘lost’ genealogy of sovereignty, rather… an interruption of the seamless narrative of transition to political modernity.” It is in…
…a way of dealing with such uncertainties. It is far easier to be playful when times are smooth and risk-free. Serious meditation is for troubled times, a search for deeper…
…doesn’t need to rush to their aid–Sean Hannity hasn’t yet thought of a way to make him a poster boy for radical Islam. Same thing with Assad in Syria–the man…
11:1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar…
…as tickets to more exclusive box seats in the huge municipal stadium of competitive professional advancement. It is, therefore, “demand-side” economics, for which guaranteed student loans is an easily understandable…
…Churches and places of worship discovered themselves in the non-essential category, a designation that many found intolerable. Prominent pastors such as John MacArthur cried foul; worship leader and provocateur Sean…