Miroslav Volf
Floating along?
It was with a dose of suspicion that I started reading the feature article in the New York Times Magazine (Feb....
Ecumenical quandary
Recently Yale Divinity School organized a conference to mark a major ecumenical event of the last decade (some would even argue, the major ecumenical event of the last century)....
But I am not Abraham
For some time now I have been both attracted to and troubled by the story of Abraham’s journey to present his son Isaac as a burnt offering in the land of Moriah....
In my own voice?
"We would like to have you speak in your own voice about what you believe as a Jew or Christian," wrote the editors inviting me to contribute to a volume in which Jews and Christians were to engage...
Reconciled in the end
As the end of the millennium approaches, many Christians are preoccupied with questions that concern the end of the world....
Washing away, washing up
I saw my wife, Judy, cringe the first time she read the children's book Noah's Ark to our son, Nathanael. "A long time ago there lived a man called Noah....
Victory of peace
The war over Kosovo has ended. While it was still raging, it was justified primarily in terms of the need to protect ethnic Albanians from egregious human rights abuses by the Milosevic regime....
Negative externality
Why shouldn't parents be treated as badly as smokers?" asked the writer rhetorically....
Remember that you will die
A metal door opened, and we were invited in. Draped sloppily in white linen was a body on a table, frozen and immovable....
Proclaiming the Lord’s death
High view of the ministry of the Word and pronounced free church sensibilities notwithstanding, I finally caved in. I sought refuge from bad preaching in the celebration of the Eucharist.
...Difficult, very difficult
The most amazing thing about the surrender of the two top officials of the Khmer Rouge regime--which was responsible for the deaths of about 1 million people--never made it to the headlines....
Taking God to court
In Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann tells of an exchange between Jacob, who has just seen what he believes is proof of his son's death, and his servant Eliezer. The passage reminds me ...
When hungers clash
His name I have forgotten, but the image of him eating at our table is indelible....
Piercing the heart
He was sitting quietly, almost impassively, as I talked to a group of people gathered in Zagreb at the launching of the Croatian translation of my book Exclusion and Embrace....
Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo, by David Toole
By David Toole, Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo: Theological Reflections on Nihilism, Tragedy, and Apocalypse. (Westview, 352 pp.)
...She who truly loves
The first thing I saw was a tear--an unforgettable giant tear in the big brown eye of a ten-year-old girl. Then I saw tears in her mother's eyes....
Kneeling to remember
It was Memorial Day, and I was sitting in the church of General George S. Patton....