Can a socialist smile? Is it possible to be joyful while one rebels against the world? These questions seem to me among the most important any socialist can as...
A condensed version of this essay appears in the Spring 2014 issue of the Ichthus.
Christianity is, as none would seriously doubt, centered on the figure of Jes...
I have elsewhere written about the political ideals of the Christian message, Jesus having proclaimed something far more radical than anything Karl Marx or Fri...
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. (1 Cor...
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Disclaimer: The views presented in this article are my own; they are not the editorial position of the I...
Rather curiously for a man who has been described as “arguably the most important intellectual alive” (New York Times) and who has been quoted as much as the Bi...
AFP/File, Andreas Solaro
Today, The Guardian (the leading British newspaper) reported the Pope’s recent apostolic exhortation, according to the paper, “the fi...
Michel Foucault
Rather than beginning here with something familiar, I should like instead to begin with the unfamiliar, with the strangeness of things, to tak...
Adam Smith
It should be ridiculous to anyone with a brain in her head that we talk so incessantly about secularization, if by the term we mean a movement away ...
N.T. Wright
It is interesting as a Marxist to observe how at the slightest mention of Karl Marx, those who would identify as Christians, perhaps out of the fea...