Godless Worlds: John Gray and Atheism
Gray, though consistently anti-utopian, is not necessarily nihilistic.
Trauma and the Eucharist
All the sacraments are traumatic for us. Our body is no longer completely our own, our present is interrupted by a foretaste of the eschatological banquet, and the sacraments ultimately are beyond any adequate verbal description.
An Unsentimental Family
The Holy Family's faith is neither sentimental nor easy nor even stable.
Tradition and the Puzzling Gospel of St. John
Tradition may be self-correcting.
Luke’s Lessons for Living amid Tragedy
On this feast day, St. Luke can guide us through a history tinged with disaster.
Bishop Barnes, Anglican Eugenicist
How could Bishop Barnes, a Cambridge mathematician, have gone so badly wrong?
How We Think
We cannot separate our thinking from our interactions with a community because thought isn’t merely analytical problem-solving.
Acts and Eugenics
Luke's book of the Acts of the Apostles teaches us what it means that "God shows no partiality."