Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Evangelical Is Not Enough. Presently Lent arrives. This is the forty days leading up to Easter, which also recall the forty days of Christ’s temptation in the wilderness. There […]
It would be like telling the story of World War II and leaving out Hitler. That’s what telling the story told in the gospels would be like without taking account of the devil. He and […]
Hölst Schüler, a former private in the Nazi German army who was tasked for two weeks during the war with going from house to house to ask people whether they were hiding Jews, reported recently […]
My husband hates the snow. In it he just sees bitter cold and heaps of work to shovel up. While I have sympathy for his disdain of winter, my own experience has given me a […]
Last Saturday I had the good fortune to participate in an event that was clearly a turning point in the history of the Spokane Catholic Diocese, and may quite possibly be part of a larger […]
Just what is a jubilee year? Its roots are found in Jewish law and practice, with Leviticus 25:10 as the signal text calling for a remission of debts – spiritual and temporal – every fifty […]
The whole Christian world has watched with fascination as Pope Francis, over the past several months, has reached out to evangelicals. Who can forget the mesmerizing iPhone video, filmed by the Pope’s (late) friend Bishop Tony […]
Like many institutions of higher education in the United States, Loyola Marymount University wrestles with questions of religious identity. These discussions—at least as they relate to faculty composition—can now be better informed thanks to a […]
Readings for Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016: • Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 40:1-5, 9-11 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 • Acts 10:34-38 or Or Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7 […]
On December 7, 1990, less than a year after dismantling of the notorious Berlin Wall started, I gave a talk entitled “A New Political World Disorder?” at a prestigious international colloquium whose chief topic was […]
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