I was at a conference last week, and I attended a panel where one of the panelists--the always thought-provoking Liz Bruenig of the New York Times--said something that crystallized a lot of what I...

Just some stuff to consider today.  It's busy here--ch-ch-changes.  Good, but busy.

A nice collection of mementos for those of you who, like me, are from “Generation X”.

Robert...

As many people have noted, atheists get a bad rap in today's society.  People don't trust them.  In fact, even atheists mistrust atheists.  (This is kind of the opposite of Cary Grant's famous, if...

I believe in semicolons.  I believe in them in much the same way that I believe in the legitimacy of direct military intervention; in other words, I believe the use of such instruments must be possi...

This piece seems importantly on-target to me, especially about American narcissism.  And about this too:

In trying to process and respond to Soleimani’s killing, the left finds itself in a...

“Unless you love the music of words you are merely a pamphleteer.”  Mary Szybist on Charles Wright, as a teacher and a poet.

Interesting piece on young people in the Reformation.  "The...

Back in October, Udi Greenberg reviewed Carlo Invernizzi Accetti's What Is Christian Democracy?  It's a good but not uncritical review, and I recommend it to you. 

Invernizzi Accetti seems to be...

I love paleoanthropology.  I don't know why; maybe it goes back to some early watching of 2001: A Space Odyssey or something.  But the idea that we have ancestors who were very different from us...

Some stuff:

Really good review by Randall Stephens of the kind of bad book about providence that, in the hands of a skilled reader, can provoke some deep theological questions:

"It...

I just read this article, which tells the story of a private equity firm--"Ethos"--which wants to buy the outfit that manages ".org" addresses on the interwebs.

One doesn't have to be paranoid...