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Neil Dhingra

Neil Dhingra is an academic adviser at the University of Maryland.

Missing the Mercy

In this erudite, accessible book, Philip C. Almond recounts the efforts of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writers to “create a coherent narrative” from the account of Noah and the Flood.

What’s a Religious College For? Learning from John Haldane

What is the purpose of education? More specifically, what is the purpose of a Christian college? This kind of education is more than submitting facts.

Holy Week, Human Failure, and What We Learn from History

Human failure, soberly appreciated, reveals the faithfulness of God. Even in pitch-black darkness, divine generativity and grace, mysterious and uncategorizable, still go on.

Simeon Zahl and Life in the Spirit

Simeon Zahl’s distinctly Protestant theology of the Spirit, emphasizing the freedom of the third person, highlights undeveloped parts of certain strains in Catholic thought. The key is playfulness.

What Is Advent For?

Then they will see “the Son of Man coming in a cloud” with power and great glory. - Luke 21:27 In Advent, the preacher faces the...

What are the Liberal Arts For? The Case of Tom Ripley

Spoilers for Netflix’s Ripley and the Book of Job The liberal arts seem neverendingly threatened, most recently at small and mid-sized Christian universities in the...

Against Pride of Possession

The New Testament exists because people in overcrowded hot rooms in Mediterranean towns were screaming at one another over the remains of a meal....

Love Amid War: St. John’s Day

In his Christmas message from 1942, the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, contrasts Augustus’ empire — “it had been won by force and rested...

Dead Piepers Society

This article contains spoilers if you haven’t seen Dead Poets Society. In a distinctly sad moment in Dead Poets Society (1989), Peter Weir’s film about...

Receptive Ecumenism as Kenosis?

By Neil Dhingra If Christians are called to unity (John 17:21), presumably churches should be able to learn from one another. Can churches learn from...