The disabling consequences of winsomeness
Stanley Hauerwas on how many modern Christians offered atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.
How the Church promotes the cause of freedom
Oliver O’Donovan: “We discover we are free when we are commanded by that authority which commands us according to the law of our being, disclosing the secrets of the heart.”
Crowd Culture
Bernard Iddings Bell: “It is because the Church has thus obscured the socially prophetic note that it seems to most people to have no relevancy.”
Civil religion and other forms of cultural captivity
Oliver O’Donovan on the danger of accommodating the demands of the Gospel to the expectations of society
Religion for Sundays only
Walter Kasper on how secularization did not eliminate religion, but made it but one sector of modern life along with many others.
Irrigating deserts
C. S. Lewis on why teachers must train the sentiments
Reducing Enlightenment glare
Colin Gunton on the alienation advanced by the Enlightenment
With enemies like this . . .
Terry Eagleton presents a blistering dismissal of arguments made by celebrity atheists
Digital equality and the untuning of the world
Lee Siegel analyzes how web-based pursuits of unique identity is so unbounded that personal definition becomes impossible.