Pastoral Faithfulness in Opaque Times
Every time is politically confused. Every culture is morally opaque. In this regard, the French cultural politics of the 1920s and 1930s are analogous to North America’s in 2018.
Quiet, modest pioneer
George A. Lindbeck’s death on January 8 brings to a close an era of extraordinarily fruitful theological work that he engaged with colleagues around the Church.
The Church as Diaspora
Diaspora is not an image of the Church. It is, rather, a historical descriptor of the Church at a given time.
Figural exegesis and the Anglican tradition
Anglicanism has made a special commitment to pursuing figural exegesis.
The missio Dei of communion: Anglicanism, change, and synodality
Ephraim Radner writes on an "ecclesiology of change" and possibilities for a new Anglican synod.
The craft of suffering
The Christian experience of suffering is distinctive. “Pain without God is intolerable. Everything in our culture flows from this ‘without God’; and, in this case, pain therefore sweeps everything before itself.”
Religion on vacation: Rocamadour, Aigues-Morte, and Nîmes
Cultural travelogues usually try to pick up a whiff of some hidden rustling in the midst of fragments. Here I see only subdued disjunctions; I smell only the dust from ground trampled by the world, as it barrels along under a sky of forgetfulness.
Religion on vacation: Toulouse and Albi
The bulls that killed St. Sernin seem to have won out, at least in publicity.