Finding Our Own Calcutta: Mother Teresa and the Infinite God Dying of Love
What could a worldly professor learn from a saint about dying as a means of living out a calling in Christ?
View ArticleRecklessly Grasping after Meaning: Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and the...
This essay explores issues of meaning and divine providence in the context of Mary Doria Russell's THE SPARROW.
View ArticleAt the Feet of Giants: An Interview with Gregory Wolfe, Part I
In Part I of this interview, Gregory Wolfe discusses beauty, and in Part II he continues this discussion, riffing on the history of IMAGE journal and the importance of sleeping well.
View ArticleAt the Feet of Giants: An Interview with Gregory Wolfe, Part II
In Part I of this interview, Gregory Wolfe discusses beauty, and in Part II he continues this discussion, riffing on the history of IMAGE journal and the importance of sleeping well.
View ArticleBack to the Alter: Revisiting Evangelicalism’s Problem with Race
A review of Paul Louis Metzger's CONSUMING JESUS: BEYOND RACE AND CLASS DIVISIONS IN A CONSUMER CHURCH.
View ArticleMeet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: An Interview with Eugene McCarraher,...
Here in part three of this interview, Eugene McCarraher talks about, among other things, the Manhattan Declaration, Radical Orthodoxy, and Herbert McCabe.
View ArticleWhose Rome? Which Catholicism? A Review of Beckwith’s Return to Rome
A critical review by James K. A. Smith of Francis Beckwith’s RETURN TO ROME.
View ArticleLove and Hope in Benedict XVI’s Vision for Human Development
Read within the context of his first two encyclicals, DEUS CARITAS EST and SPE SALVI, Pope Benedict XVI’s third encyclical, CARITAS IN VERITATE, presents a unified philosophical and theological vision...
View ArticleOrdinary Mysticism—Life Among the Displaced: An Interview with Sister Marilyn...
In this interview, Sister Marilyn Lacey of Mercy Beyond Borders discusses her new memoir, *This Flowing Toward Me*, her fear of spiders, her work with refugees, and the surprising movement of God’s...
View ArticleDigesting the Word: A Tryptic and Proposal on Dietary Choice
This essay reflects upon the fascinating painting by Velázquez Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, discusses the current Roman Catholic rules of abstinence, and considers the curious fact that...
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Recklessly Grasping after Meaning: Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and the...
A few years ago I read The Sparrow, an interesting, rather heady first novel by Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow relates the discovery of and Christian mission to a distant planet that emanates a kind...
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At the Feet of Giants: An Interview with Gregory Wolfe, Part I
Gregory Wolfe is editor and founder of Image, a quarterly journal that has featured prominent writers, sculptors, painters, and poets for over twenty years. The journal also hosts the Glen Workshop,...
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At the Feet of Giants: An Interview with Gregory Wolfe, Part II
Gregory Wolfe is editor and founder of Image, a quarterly journal that has featured prominent writers, sculptors, painters, and poets for over twenty years. The journal also hosts the Glen Workshop,...
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Back to the Alter: Revisiting Evangelicalism’s Problem with Race
Paul Louis Metzger. Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007. 191 pages.$10.88 paperback. Click on the image to purchase...
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: An Interview with Eugene McCarraher,...
In the rapidly changing political and economic conditions of our time, it is important that we consider existential questions of how to live as Christians. As we seek to answer these questions,...
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Whose Rome? Which Catholicism? A Review of Beckwith’s Return to Rome
Francis J. Beckwith, Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic . Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2009. 144 pages. $10.19 paperback (Amazon). Click here or on the image to purchase Return...
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Love and Hope in Benedict XVI’s Vision for Human Development
Since his election to the papacy in 2005, Benedict XVI has written three encyclicals: one on love (Deus Caritas Est), one on hope (Spe Salvi), and one on human development (Caritas in Veritate). Though...
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Ordinary Mysticism—Life Among the Displaced: An Interview with Sister Marilyn...
In the complex politics of the world market, borders frequently shift and governments often fail. Millions of people become refugees. And these people are left to suffer at the margins, homeless and...
View ArticleDigesting the Word: A Tryptic and Proposal on Dietary Choice
Last June, I was at a conference in the Romanian city of Constanţa, the birthplace of monastic founder John Cassian. One day we drove inland from the Black Sea toward the Bulgarian border to...
View ArticleCatólicos Por La Raza and the Cardinal’s Midnight Mass: Interrupting the...
On Christmas Eve 1969, a melee broke out at St. Basil’s Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles. The disruption to James Francis Cardinal McIntyre’s midnight Mass was a protest by Católicos Por La Raza, a...
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