Icon (Close Menu)

God

This Fragile Frame, the Pilgrim’s Home

The image of the pilgrim anchors the biblical vision for the life of the creature who names the biblical God as Lord. Robert Crouse,...

Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

As I grew up in the 1990s, few hours of television were as sacrosanct to me as Quantum Leap. I was already a lover...

The Street Theologians

Sandy: You hear the word of God more on the street than you do anywhere else. Interviewer: From who? Sandy: Random people. God’s little messengers, that’s...

The Unsettling God of Abraham

"'God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob,’ not of philosophers and scholars.” After Blaise Pascal’s death, a piece of parchment with these...

Defamiliarizing Biblical Narrative: Or, On Keeping Scripture Weird

By Joseph L. Mangina The etymology of the word weird is, if not actually weird, then at least complicated and interesting. According to the Oxford...

Centered in God

By Robert A. Hirschfeld Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity — “The Second Coming,”...

On Knowing and Not-Knowing God: Reflections on the Apophatic

By Joseph Mangina The theological college where I teach stands at the almost exact geographical center of a great university. Of all the disciplines...

Problems with Forgiveness

By Amber Noel The priest says, “Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor,” and maybe (if you’re lucky), there’s a period of...

A Contract with God: Will Eisner’s Lament

By Joey Royal Will Eisner, who died in 2005 at the age of 87, was an influential cartoonist and comic book writer. Of his many...

Exodus and Tiramisu

Exodus 12:33-14:31 By Amber Noel This section of Exodus reminds me irresistibly of tiramisu. Or perhaps lasagna. No — let’s stick with tiramisu. Starting with chapter...

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

Top headlines. Every Friday.

MOST READ