On Idolatry

Nick NowalkMarch 29, 2010

“You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every g...

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Finding Joy

Roshni PatelMarch 26, 2010

A highly contentious health care reform bill was just passed by the US House of Representatives that many people, Christians and non-Christians alike, opposed. ...

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Dante and Virgil

Anne BoemlerMarch 25, 2010

In my last post, I looked at the positive ways Dante used the figure of Virgil, a pagan poet, in his Divine Comedy. Dante respected Virgil, and he recognized an...

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The Creek

Judith HuangMarch 24, 2010

There was something so allegorical about the little trip down the creek into the lake in Puerto Rico, but in fact it did happen and it was completely physical, ...

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Worries

Jordan GandhiMarch 23, 2010

With midterms and papers galore this week, it is easy to lose sight of the most important things in life: our Father in heaven and His son's sacrifice for us. I...

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Lesslie Newbigin

Nick NowalkMarch 22, 2010

Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) deserves to be near the top of any serious list of gifted contemporary theologians.  After serving for decades as a missionary in I...

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Obama and Changing the World

J. Joseph PorterMarch 19, 2010

This is an idea for a brief sermon I hope to deliver to an actual audience someday - hopefully at Harvard. Two years ago, most of our campus was swept aw...

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Dante and Virgil

Anne BoemlerMarch 18, 2010

The first great Christian poet—perhaps the only Christian poet famous enough invariably to be taught in high school English classes—is undoubtedly Dante. His Di...

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What is Reason?

Jordan GandhiMarch 16, 2010

After my treatise on reason, there are still some lingering questions: if reason is all that it's cracked up to be, why do so many people disagree? Why do peopl...

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Love and Service for the Son of Man

Nick NowalkMarch 15, 2010

Jesus’ insistence that “the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45, Matthew 20:28) is a peren...

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