James Comey is perhaps a better Niebuhrian than Niebuhr himself.
Theology
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Mocking religion is not a requirement for scientific literacy
Julie Payette, Canada’s new governor general, stirred up controversy with a speech to a scientific gathering in which she seemed to pit “divine intervention” against “natural process.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
What is the link between martyrs of today and martyrs of the early church?
John Thiede’s new text is a helpful exploration of martyrdom in the church today.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
In purgatory, God turns back time—and transforms sin
God’s mercy finds a way to fix, in time, in us, what a time of sin has distorted.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
All Saints Day is not Lesser Saints Day
Today in honoring the saints, we recognize that they have built the church.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Even with so many dead in the Civil War, what Lincoln teaches us about the value of human life.
We love our definitions, our categories and our ability to transform most anything in the world into an equation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Why Satan’s character in Paradise Lost is the original antihero
John Milton’s Paradise Lost (published in 1667) may be more relevant in our time than ever before.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What Catholics in post-Protestant democracy can learn from medieval monarchs
If we, the people, are ourselves responsible for the good of the state, then we have the same obligations that a medieval monarch once had.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Are gun manufacturers and politicians morally complicit in mass shootings?
Politicians who enable the proliferation of assault weapons are guilty of illicit cooperation in evil.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Did American Christian culture pave the way for Hugh Hefner’s sexual revolution?
Hef the man stopped mattering to the culture decades ago, but Hef the symbol still does.