ETHICS: Christian Marriage’s Freedom in Limitation February 21, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features We can only really experience true and positive freedom within appropriate boundaries. Imagine trying to play football if there are no sidelines or end zones.
Reparations: No Black-and-White Solution January 28, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features The question that seems to be on everyone’s mind is how to determine who is eligible to receive reparations payments. Suggested eligibility requirements are contested and would probably cause bitter disputes.
So, Then… Do We Really Want to Be One? January 24, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features By Russell Levenson “We pray for your holy Catholic Church... that we all may be one” (BCP, p. 387). In that prayer, we are connecting to Jesus’ final prayer before the Passion. My staff and I pray it regula... Read more...
Sarah Patton Boyle: Desegregation of the Human Heart January 19, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features By Rebecca Bridges Watts Sarah Patton Boyle Born in Virginia in 1906, Sarah Patton Boyle was raised in a white Southern family, the daughter of an Episcopal priest, and was and taught not to question wha... Read more...
A History We Share January 19, 2020 Essays & Reviews Decades later, a white author connects with the black infant who integrated an amusement park in Baltimore.
A Terrible Freedom January 10, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features Terrance Malick's new film about one man's resistance to Hitler is drenched in poetic repetition of Christian symbol, as integral to his signature film-craft as the play of natural light, the close study of human faces and hands, or voice-over delivered in a near whisper.
Putting Treasure Where the Heart Is January 10, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features Using investment practices to address issues important to people of faith, including human rights and human trafficking, tobacco, gun control, climate change, gender diversity, pay equity, poverty, and immigration.
Fresh Carols for a Global Christmas December 20, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features Kevin Carey draws inspiration from other cultures in this collection of holiday poetry.
Rowan Williams’s Beautiful Grasp of Augustine December 17, 2019 Essays & Reviews Reviewed by John C. Cavadini On Augustine By Rowan Williams Bloomsbury, Pp. xii + 213. $42. To read these essays now published in book form is a little like a homecoming. I had remembered read... Read more...
The Spiritual History of Oil November 5, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features We seldom reflect on the nature and purposes of energy itself and the kind of people and societies we need it to create. Dochuk has skillfully and subtly raised a number of questions for our contemporary society, and for Christians in particular.
