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September 2013

September 06, 2013

The Economy of Desire

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer admonishes Christians who have bought into the theology of...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

On Honesty and Confession

Does a moral, psychological “point of no return” exist? Shakespeare illustrates what this turning point...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

How Should We Spend Our Goodwill?

The New York Times reports on the controversy over the presence of Christian religious symbols...

June 12, 2013

What We Can Learn from Young Atheists

Recently The Atlantic posted an article entitled, “Listening to Young Atheists, Lessons for a Stronger...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

Orthodoxy Has Won?

In an interesting read from Time Magazine, Mary Eberstat, author of this new book on secularism,...

May 08, 2013

The Real Case Against the Suburbs, or, How Ought Christians to Think About the Common Good?

Over at Mere O, Keith Miller has been kind enough to respond to a piece...

May 03, 2013

Should We Buy Houses?

At the end of yesterday's post, the editors called for a renewed attempt to distinguish...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

The Decline of Dawkins and the Dawn of Deliberative Doubt

In March 2012, a crowd of atheists flocked to the National Mall in Washington, DC...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Persuading Isn’t Just about Argumentation

This week First Things ran an excellent article entitled "Pope Francis and the Clash of Revelations."...

March 23, 2013

Introducing the Sacrallennials

Over at Juicy Ecumenism, guest poster Thomas Holgrave (of the worth-checking-out blog The Hipster...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

What I’ve Learned from Communion

Growing up, my church observed “Lord’s Supper” once a quarter. Every three months, an extra...

February 06, 2013

Speaking Justice to a Postmodern Era

I was sitting in a Starbucks with a friend, an agnostic, talking about faith...

February 05, 2013

The New Apologetic

The church may be on the verge of a Renaissance, a movement forward via...