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We should read the New Testament as saying that how we treat each other on...

In the aftermath of two more mass shootings last Saturday, I read a number of...

“Christians Tired of Being Misrepresented.” “I’m Not That Kind of Christian.” “The Christian Left.” These...

Another Saturday morning, another vile stream of racist and/or misogynistic tweets from the President. This...

As millions of other Americans, I awoke last Wednesday intending to binge watch the Mueller...

Three days after the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT in...

It is clear that immigration and the southern U.S. border are going to be central...

I think it’s time for us to get a little bit more uncompromising in our...

It is Memorial Day weekend, a great time to honor those who have made sacrifices...

Today is my college's Commencement Day. I've been to more than thirty college graduation events,...

I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...

Easter Sunday--the most triumphant day on the Christian liturgical calendar. According to New Testament scholar...

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy...

Once many years ago, a couple I was close friends with was having marital problems....

Not long ago, I found myself involved behind the scenes in a squabble between the...

If you think you understand it, it is not God.  Soren Kierkegaard In Marilynne Robinson’s...

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence...

As we drove home from a lovely two-day celebration of our twenty-fifth anniversary several years...

I have been accused frequently over the past several weeks by commenters on my blog...

We ought not to hide from ourselves that Nazi Germany is a mirror for all...

Why do intelligent people believe lies that are easily exposed as lies? Why do intelligent...

I recently had a brief, unproductive exchange in the comment section of this blog with...

In early 1980, Isaac Asimov wrote something in a Newsweek article that has been making the rounds on...

If everybody is your neighbor, then nobody is. Rod Dreher Next semester, a colleague and...

Ian McEwan's The Children Act is the story of Fiona Maye, an experienced and highly respected family...

Two years ago, the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 fell on a Sunday. The priest of...

At the beginning of a seminar on the books of Exodus and Job from the...

One of my favorite staff writers for The New Yorker is Rebecca Mead; she’s been...

Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree, and there shall...

We are not simply made by God—we are made of God  Julian of Norwich I...