Against every dictate of common (or is it merely human?) sense, the apostle Paul once audaciously claimed that, in his own intentional crafting of his gospel me...
The overwhelming majority of commentators and scholars who reflect upon Paul's letter to the Romans agree that 1:16-17 is the thesis of the apostle's entire vis...
"One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there's nothing but unanswered pain. That death's got the final word, it's laughing at him. Another man sees that same...
My regular reading practice of the Gospels has been most acutely altered over the past few years as a direct result of what now strikes me as a painfully obviou...
Paul's warning in 1 Corinthians 6:18 often strikes me as a mystifying exaltation of sexual sin above other sorts of moral failures . Why should deviance from G...
David Foster Wallace, the enigmatic and fascinating author of Infinite Jest and (the posthumously published) The Pale King, gave a remarkable commencement addre...
In C. H. Dodd's expert but overlooked work, History and the Gospel, the renowned former professor of divinity at Cambridge pointed out a surprising piece of evi...
The Christian student group I work with at Harvard is co-sponsoring a reading project this summer along with a humanist student group in which we will, together...
In reviewing the polemical, vitriolic works of such "New Atheists" as Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennet in his book Atheist Delusions, David Bentley Hart loo...
Blaise Pascal's observation about the indelible God-shaped hole or vacuum within each fallen human being is justly famous. However, the larger context is less ...
