The kingdom of God has public consequences
Lesslie Newbigin on the subversiveness of the Church’s message to the world
The dangers of the life of the mind
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., on why Flannery O’Connor encouraged the cultivation of “Christian skepticism”
Remembering Miss O’Connor
Literary critic Richard Gilman shares impressions of his relationship with Flannery O’Connor
God is in the details
Flannery O’Connor on why stories rely on the particularities of reality
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