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May 2007

May 05, 2007
The war was stupid and wrong from the start. We (Americans, British, etc.) went into...

April 2007

April 25, 2007
After 1500 years, Origen gets a break. Pope Benedict dedicated his Wednesday audience to him,...
April 01, 2007
As the crisis in the Episcopal Church appears to be nearing a climax (but haven't...

February 2007

February 25, 2007
Since every other Anglican blog has naturally been holding forth for the past few weeks...
February 24, 2007
The two great parties in human affairs are only the party which sees life black...

October 2006

October 17, 2006
The catchphrase on the Left these days (and among many who see themselves as moderate)...
October 10, 2006
I particularly like the point that the invasion of Iraq went astray in part because...
October 08, 2006
This report by the Council on Foreign Relations was published in the New York Times....

August 2006

August 08, 2006
Christianity Today reports that evangelical leaders including Franklin Graham and Rick Warren are criticizing the...
August 06, 2006
I have recently gotten a job at a college in Indiana (Huntington University), and the...

March 2006

March 21, 2006
Here I go again after another of my long lapses. I'm not going to become...

January 2006

January 22, 2006
In my last post I referred briefly to the medieval courtly romance "Erec et Enide,"...
January 21, 2006
A more interesting critique of Narnia than Toynbee's (not focused on the movie, BTW) is...
January 14, 2006
It's been a long while since I've blogged, as happens from time to time. I...

November 2005

November 13, 2005
++Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, occupies one of the least enviable seats in Christendom at...

October 2005

October 30, 2005
One of the central slogans that's come to be identified with the Reformation is the...
October 13, 2005
"There are no unsacred places;there are only sacred placesand desecrated places."Thanks to la nouvelle theologie...
October 09, 2005
Dave,Here at last is my piece defending the development of Protestant ecclesiology, which I've been...
October 09, 2005
My defense will take place on Oct. 17. Assuming all goes well, a major phase...

September 2005

September 04, 2005
I've been carrying on a conversation in the comments section with a poster named Binx,...

August 2005

August 28, 2005
It's common for Protestants to claim that justification by faith is the single major issue...
August 21, 2005
For non-Catholics, perhaps the most interesting part of World Youth Day was Pope Benedict's address...
August 14, 2005
First of all, I'm sorry I've been away from the blog for so long. I...

June 2005

June 12, 2005
"John Student" asked in a comment to my last post why I thought Protestantism had...
June 05, 2005
In my last post, I said that I saw two basic ways of approaching the...

May 2005

May 04, 2005
One of the positive intellectual developments of the past few decades has been an increasing...

April 2005

April 20, 2005
This week, as everybody knows, the Christian world got a new Pope. I say "the...
April 03, 2005
I've spent much of the past day and a half watching coverage of the Pope's...

March 2005

March 25, 2005
I don't really have anything to say about the Terri Schiavo case that hasn't been...

February 2005

February 13, 2005
"Relativism" is one of those words that gets thrown around in our culture a lot,...
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