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Up from Darwinism by J. Scott Turner

August 7, 2018

I can remember the day it happened: I could no longer be a Darwinist. It was a few months prior to the release last year of Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something “Alive” and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to … read more »

Where Have You Gone, C. S. Lewis?

August 7, 2018

“If you are right with Him you will inevitably be right with all your fellow creatures, just as if all the spokes of a wheel are fitted rightly into the hub and the rim they are bound to be in … read more »

Standing Up for Safe Spaces in Churches, Even When It Costs You Everything

June 5, 2018

In an age of #MeToo and #ChurchToo, it’s easy to become discouraged by some of the ways the church seems to be failing to lead the charge on issues that critically affect its members. The church is a place where … read more »

N. T. Wright on Paul: A Biography

April 9, 2018

I looked up at the “departures” board one more time. The flight from Cluj (Romania) back to the UK had been delayed by a further hour. A double frustration: First, would I make my connection at the other end? Second, … read more »

Being Grateful in the Age of Trump

April 8, 2018

Tumultuous—that’s my one-word summary for how I experienced the end of last year and the first few months of this one. If I allowed myself more than one word, I might add afraid, discouraged, angry, and somehow I would need … read more »

A Bigger Bridge: Revising and Expanding a Groundbreaking Book on LGBT Catholics
By James Martin, SJ

March 10, 2018

Within weeks of the publication of the first edition of Building a Bridge, I knew that I wanted to write a revised edition. Why? Simply put, after countless conversations with LGBT Catholics and church leaders after the book’s publication, I had learned … read more »

The Remarkably Unlikely Lives of the Apostle Paul and Billy Graham

March 10, 2018

Ambient cultural noise can distort how we assess someone’s significance. Billy Graham is a good example. I am writing this less than a week after the passing of the preeminent evangelist of the twentieth century. For most of the time … read more »

Resurrecting Easter by John Dominic Crossan

February 9, 2018

Our book Resurrecting Easter is an adventure, a travelogue, a detective story, and, above all else, an exercise in visual as distinct from verbal theology. It focuses on the radical difference between Eastern Christianity’s universal vision of Christ arising with … read more »

The Long and Deep Crisis-Response Plan

February 9, 2018

When I read the news now, I often run through a cycle of becoming scared, angry, frustrated, and then scared again. When a Christian leader again defends our president against something for which that same leader clearly would have been … read more »

Moving Beyond Deconstructing Faith by Benjamin L. Corey

November 2, 2017

World War II decimated much of Europe and left once-beautiful cities in smoldering rubble. Homes, breathtaking cathedrals, and bridges, along with nearly anything else one could imagine, were either damaged or destroyed by the evils of war. While war itself … read more »