Miroslav Volf

The “grave and gathering danger” hanging over the world is not so much the danger that Saddam Hussein presents (as President Bush insists) but the danger of American preemptive war against Iraq....

When I visited a Baltimore neighborhood called Sandtown in 1997, my most vivid impression was that of disturbing, jarring contrast....

Dearly beloved: Recent surveys report that adults in their 20s have high hopes for themselves and marriage, but a low appraisal of marriage in general.

Recently, in a class titled “Theology and Trauma Theory,” we read the text that catapulted Karl Barth to theological fame: Epistle to the Romans, written shortly after World War I....

Lawrence Langer explains in Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory that written accounts of life in the Nazi concentration camps often seek to integrate the Holocaust experience i...

I was driving to work when a song on the radio caught my attention....

Nothing is gained and much is lost if we describe the terrorists as evil,” a friend of mine argued recently. I disagree. Our difference can be traced back to a division in moral philosophy....

Now is the time to warn ourselves of the dangers of impregnability. True, as a country we have been violated in a most brutal way, and we’ll have to make sure that we are safe in the future....

A few months ago I gave a lecture at a small Midwestern college....

Some time ago a family paid us a visit. Robert, as I will call a little boy who came along, was about our son’s age, and neither of them had yet mastered the art of sharing....

Dear Timothy, As I was preparing a brief meditation on the “last words” of Jesus, I thought of you....

The statistics are clearly in my favor. An overwhelming majority of children adopt the religion of their parents. So I shouldn’t worry....

It may seem odd that at the beginning of the 21st century our lives are so pervasively dominated by rules, big rules and small rules, rules that frame our interactions and rules that enter into the...

As I was browsing through a used bookstore, I chanced upon a small treasure, an early English translation of a book whose author we don’t know (identified only by place of residence as &ldquo...

When it became clear that we did not yet have a president-elect, I determined not to waste time glued to the television set trying to follow the meandering route that will eventually give us our ne...

A Presbyterian minister told me a story about his first year at a certain congregation....

In a recent lecture on the exercise of political power, David R....

Our hopes are a measure of our greatness. When they shrink, we ourselves are diminished....

It was not what was predicted by mainstream sociologists who followed in the footsteps of Karl Marx, Max Weber and Émile Durkheim, but it has happened....

"Incredible wealth” and “breathless pace”—these are two of the most prominent features of Western societies as the old millennium ends and the new begins....