Creation’s goodness and human faithfulness
J. Matthew Bonzo and Michael R. Stevens on Wendell Berry’s understanding of how Creation is a gift with certain givenness
Productivity or thrift?
Wendell Berry contrasts an economy of productivity (which invites extravagance) and an economy of thrift (which takes care of things)
The destructive logic of short-term thinking
Wendell Berry on the perils of ignoring the nature of Nature
The danger of not defining “freedom”
Richard Bauckham insists that an adequate understanding of freedom requires recognition of God as the ground of true human freedom
Insisting that political leaders are incapable of obeying Christ
Oliver O’Donovan on the unintended consequences of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
An unwitting agent for the secularization of America
Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden explain how a prominent Christian Founding Father added momentum to the secularization of America
An account of God’s relatedness to time and space
Colin Gunton on the trinitarian conception of the divine economy in St. Irenaeus
How the truth finds itself when confronted with error
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the intense radiance emanating from the writings of St. Irenaeus as he confronted heresies
Our bodies, our selves
Douglas Farrow on the insistence of St. Irenaeus that the Ascension of Christ means that our bodies — not just our souls — are beneficiaries of redemption
Questioning “conservatives”
John Lukacs asserts that believers in unending technological ‘progress’ can’t really be conservatives.