Justice, Mercy and The Irishman
The world of The Irishman is a deeply moral one, with a strong sense of retribution and justice, but without much hope of reconciliation or redemption for its central characters.
Anglicans Online: A Retrospective
The opportunity to offer a personal retrospective on the website is a happy and welcome thing, if here emphatically personal. Anglicans Online’s inner workings were always a group effort of deep magic.
Esther
Who is this woman, framed by arches?
“A Merry Heart Goes All the Day”: Why I’m Reading Walter Scott
Scott invests many of his characters with moral goodness and, occasionally, holiness. His heroes and heroines are inspiring. The sheer degradedness and badness of his anti-heroes leaves the strongest impression. The novels are above all about character.
Towards a Livelier God
Andreas Wagner’s God’s Body, a revision of an earlier German book, is a fascinating and provocative discussion of anthropomorphism, the presentation of God as an embodied person
“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome
With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.
Of Hymns and Missionaries
By Daniel Martins
One of the spiritual practices in which I regularly engage is to sit down at a piano or organ keyboard with a hymnal and just play through hymns, allowing myself ample opportunity to reflec... Read More...
In Search of Cohesion
As much as we would have it be otherwise, we, as Christians, really cannot rely on “nature” to provide an answer to many ethical questions. We are a people united in our belief that our human nature is beloved and capable of union with the divine, but what precisely human nature is, is a truly complicated question.