Wisdom from Augustine in an election year
Our so-called Christian politics have been captivated by the liturgies of the earthly city rather than the city of God.
Reading The Irony of American History 70 years later
What do Reinhold Niebuhr's blind spots tell us about our own?
What if forgiveness were unthinkable?
Paul Kahn’s memoir of his family is a cautionary mirror for our cultural moment.
I’m a philosopher. We can’t think our way out of this mess.
I’m throwing in my lot with the poets and painters, the novelists and songwriters.
How Augustine responded to the problem of evil without solving it
When we make sense of suffering, we lose our ability to protest against it.
When Christian practice (de)forms us
Do practices make us better people? Lauren Winner isn't so sure.
Church against state? Resident Aliens at 25
A funny thing happened on the way to the church-as-polis: I can now imagine being a resident alien and invested in the state, in all of its glorious failing.
Alternative liturgy: Social media as ritual
If Christian liturgy works on the imagination, so do disordered secular liturgies. Social media—despite its good uses—might be one example.