culture
All identities are intersectional
Identity markers are necessary, argues Kwame Anthony Appiah. They're also inadequate.
by Chris Hammer
Can Christians transform culture?
Jamie Smith thinks it might be the other way around.
Zadie Smith leaves no cultural stone unturned
Smith's collection of essays considers the self as an improvised response to language and the world.
Faith makes us human
We wish something would prove beyond doubt that Someone obliged us large-brained, bipedal primates with a breath of consciousness.
A Public Faith, by Miroslav Volf
Of the rewriting Christ and Culture there
shall be no end. Miroslav Volf is too sophisticated a theologian to
rehash or imitate H. Richard Niebuhr's celebrated fivefold schema, but A Public Faith remains in the shadow of Niebuhr's defining work.
reviewed by Samuel Wells