Moral church, amoral society
Maybe Christian Realism is the best option we have today.
Which new books deserve a spot under the Christmas tree?
We asked our contributing editors to each pick two.
James Comey didn’t write a tell-all. He wrote a handbook.
What does ethical leadership look like?
Shaping Public Theology, by Max L. Stackhouse
The essays in this volume provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Max Stackhouse's thought, and they raise provocative questions about how we are constructing public theology today.
Accidental impact: Resident Aliens at 25
Resident Aliens, a work of theology, was put to use as applied sociology. The description of life in the Christian colony became, paradoxically, a formula for success.
Highly evolved questions: What scientists and theologians talk about
We can learn a lot from interdisciplinary conversation. But we are sometimes puzzled by how our colleagues know what they seem to know.
In the Days of Caesar, by Amos Yong
In the course of the 20th century, Pentecostalism expanded from a small revival movement to a global presence comparable in its extent and variety to Roman Catholicism or Anglicanism....
Take and read
Two distinguished scholars offer us important new statements about Christian ethics....
Still on a mission
Walter Russell Mead was an early advocate of expanding American power in the vacuum left by the end of the cold...
No going back: Freedom, Moscow style
Despite assurances that the cold war is over, relations between Russia and the United States suggest a certain nostalgia for that era on both sides....
In his steps: Beyond the assumption that everybody is just like us
I’m teaching “The Bible and Ethics” this semester with my New Testament colleague Mark Chancey....
Faithful and effective: A working doctrine of grace
It’s been a good season for scandal. Bribery sent a California congressman to prison. Fraud charges provided courtroom drama in Houston....