The World We Are Creating
“The root of all war is fear.”—Thomas Merton Our third grade classroom is filled with the colors of the rainbow. In it, Latoya’s map of her city of Asbury Park contains deep greens for parks and three...
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Fearless Speech, Courageous Eyes: A Theological Engagement with Freedom of...
Is anything more sacred to democracy than freedom of speech?1 And in our late modern world, is anything more sacred than democracy? Indeed, despite all the laments about the erosion of absolutes and a...
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False Idols or Latter Day Saints: “Kurt & Warhol” at the Seattle Art Museum
Had Andy Warhol still been living when Kurt Cobain committed suicide in April 1994, the odds are he would have immortalized Cobain in his art. Cobain, with his short, tortured life and his brief but...
View ArticleToward a Hopeful Politics: Václav Havel’s Legacy of Responsible Commitment
Czech playwright, activist, and politician Václav Havel was not a religious man, at least not in the sense in which we normally use that term. His political writing, however, was imbued with an...
View ArticleThe Petitionary Prayer of Gethsemane in the Event of Divine Desire: Faith’s...
Composing this essay has been difficult. I suspect that much of my difficulty in writing it resides in the fact that, in many ways, this piece embodies the liminal state of religious studies that I try...
View ArticleWill Love Cast Out Fear? The Syrian Refugees and Christian America
On the Monday after the Paris attacks, Oliver Willis (@owillis) of Media Matters for America tweeted, “if only we had a seasonally appropriate story about middle eastern people seeking refuge being...
View ArticleEscaping the Bully-God of American Evangelicalism: An Interview with Doug Frank
Doug Frank spent his career helping young men and women explore the emotional landscape of growing up as American evangelicals. Teaching at a remote college program far out of the Christian mainstream,...
View ArticleWaiting
Time as we experience it is by definition a denial of instantaneousness, a requirement to wait.—Alan Lewis At one thirty on a Tuesday afternoon ten days from now, I will fall asleep. Fall is perhaps...
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