Ithilien

For many years now, the main rival to Catholicism for me has been the concept of "mere Christianity" articulated by C. S. Lewis....

One often hears people say that the labels "conservative" and "liberal" aren't helpful and we should drop them. In ...

A friend of mine just posted on Facebook an incident in which someone berated her for "missing out on precious moments" with her c...

William Turner, "The Slave Ship," public domain So the Inte rnet went up in flames last week over Ben Carson's insertion...

John Guzlowski kindly invited me to respond to Danusha Goska's essay on the relationship of Nazism and Christianity on his blog. You ca...

when he warns that calling the media the "enemy" is "how dictators get started." I hear so many people following Pres...

In comparative discussions of violence in Christianity and Islam, one often hears the argument that the New Testament  specifically is non...

This article about the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle makes me want to watch the series, but also provokes some reflections ...

The 1979 Episcopal BCP's lectionary reading for today excerpts St. Stephen's long sermon in Acts 7 so as to read: "Then the hig...

Rince Priebus got himself in trouble today by sending out a message referring to "the good news of a new King," which many people ...

Check out this piece I wrote for my friend Joe Martyn Ricke's website, a meditation on the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

I ate lunch in Jerusalem twice this Advent. Not, alas, Jerusalem the city, but Jerusalem the excellent new Middle Eastern restaurant in my...

In a Facebook conversation a while ago, somebody linked to this 2012 piece by Conor Friedersdorf listing 21 things that Americans sometimes...

When I was in grad school, involved in the graduate chapter of InterVarsity at Duke, we spent a lot of our time worry about how Christians s...

They say there was a secret chord That Leonard played, and it pleased the Lord, But you don't really care for music, do you? Well, ...

The following is an article that I wrote for Christianity Today online last year, which they decided not to publish. So I'm releasing ...