One Eternal Day

The Coen brothers made several of my favorite films: The Big Lebowski , Fargo , and Miller's Crossing, among them. I find those and seve...

In an article about the "de-churched," i.e. those who have left the church, Skye Jethani identifies two distinct categories : thos...

Russell Moore, who is Dean at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,  has written before about his view "...that burial, not cremation...

Roger Scruton on "Gratitude and Grace" : .... The term (Latin gratia ) translates a variety of words in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, an...

Michael Spencer has died. He blogged as the Internet Monk and was one of the first Christian bloggers I discovered. Often provocative and a...

Robert Samuelson explains one of the reasons increasing numbers of people are simultaneously politically motivated and cynical about politi...

J.R. Daniel Kirk , via By Every Word : In Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," the Misfit explai...

It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed. And the cu...

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus ...

Sean Curnyn reviews for First Things the most recently released of Johnny Cash's "American Recordings," American VI: Ain...

I have previously posted information about Seventh Day Baptist involvement in the abolitionist movement before the Civil War. Another inst...

Some students at a university founded by Presbyterians object to the vestigial remnents of Christian influence still present. James Tarant...

Theodore Dalrymple on "Self-Esteem vs. Self-Respect" : With the coyness of someone revealing a bizarre sexual taste, m...

I have an early memory of sitting in the car with the door open while my father and our pastor stood near me talking. The only thing I remem...

Stephen Hebert, writing at Withering Fig, has been thinking about "What’s Wrong with Systematic Theology" and particularly some p...

In an article, "Christian faith: Calvinism is back" in The Christian Science Monitor , Josh Burek describes the ministry of Capit...

Woody Allen seems to have been only half right about dietary science. But who knows, hot fudge may turn out to be a health food too. ...

Roman Catholicism is enduring unremitting criticism with respect to the sexual abuse of minors by priests and other religious. Needless to s...

Not long ago there were those who agonized over the possibility that a Christian fundamentalist theocracy threatened religious liberty in th...

John Polkinghorne was a physicist — a highly respected one — the discoverer of the quark and professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge...