Storytelling Relearned
For Rowan Williams, the tragic imagination keep us mindful that we are not in control of all that surrounds us.
Grace and Daily Life
This book is a memoir and yet doubles as a devotional, especially for mothers and wives who fret about the day-to-day messiness of their lives.
Freedom and Popular Culture
R.R. Reno worries that an American dream of unbounded liberty lets us distort created reality and cruelly neglect those whose “destinies were largely fixed at birth.”
Comic Tribute to a 14th-century Mystic
The Saintliness of Margery Kempe is now being revived Off-Broadway, 59 years after it last graced a New York stage.
Marketing the Religious Moment
Phyllis Tickle never considered herself post-Christian, and after joining the Episcopal Church, she remained faithful and active.
Utilitarian Ethics in Action
Having determined the “best course of treatment” for Alfie Evans, British medical experts refused to consider that he might be better cared for elsewhere, and the courts merely backed them up.
A Few Cheers for Intelligent Design
In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer supplies a creditable example of the Intelligent Design genre.
A Teacher to the End
Pope Benedict saw that theology should be renewed by drawing on the Fathers and above all by continually drawing nourishment from the Scriptures.
Threading the Pauline Needle
New Testament scholar Garwood Anderson of Nashotah House Theological Seminary enters the fray of the New Perspective on Paul.
Theologian of the Fantastic Imagination
George MacDonald’s writings precede, form, and indeed radically instigate those of C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton.