A Happy Marriage Across Party Lines
Living together so long has taught us that it is possible to tolerate our opposition on serious issues because we agree on what matters most, which is that the ...
Quotes
Jim Harrison on the book that “made you who you are today”
If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be? The King James Version of the Bible. Also the works of Dostoyevsky. I read the Bi...
Rowan Williams: the case for blasphemy
If you are forbidden to voice the hard questions, this might suggest that faith survives only by never being challenged. The person who actually expresses their...
The three big stories of modernity
So far there have been three widely influential stories about the rise of modernity: the Emancipatory, the Protestant, and the Neo-Thomist. The Emancipatory acc...
The Soul of the Marionette
If the only alternative to Gnosticism is Stoicism—if the intellect of man is forced to choose the wild outward spirit or the stern inward soul—then we have made...
Their emulation of Jesus proved fatally incomplete …
Here their emulation of Jesus proved fatally incomplete. In their quest to be inclusive and tolerant and up-to-date, the accommodationists imitated his scandalo...