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.
Covenantal Theology for the Anglican Communion
A determination to do Anglican theology, rather than mere sociological or historical description, marks The Vocation of Anglicanism.
Thank You for the Music
If it were not for the music I came to love in the Episcopal Church, I would not have become a Christian.