International Justice Mission
Must be something in the air. After Bill's sermon Sunday about the necessity of the church to be completely pro-life, I came home and found an article about International Justice Mission in the latest edition of The New Yorker. IJM…
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009
At All Saints we emphasize speaking the truth in love. We want to love those around us and so we present the truth, but we do not assume that it is love to water down the truth either. Simply put,…
Treatise against Intellectual-ism
One of the best ways to learn theology is to read it as it was written – from the top. So today when I saw a copy of Tertullian’s “Treatise Against Hermogenes” at Half-Price Books for $4.98 I bought it. …
Freedom and Discipline
I took piano lessons for three years, trumpet for two; I have been playing bass since my sophomore year of high school and I can barely read the treble clef, and the bass might as well be Sanskrit. It’s not…
Book Review: Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church – James K.A. Smith
In one of the only legitimate Christian treatments of postmodernism that I’ve come across, James K. A. Smith argues that postmodernism presents a window for Christians eager to preach a communal and redemptive gospel into a society atomized by consumerism,…
Christianity, the Advertising Ban
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil with well over ten million inhabitants. In early 2007, the municipal government decided to ban all forms of public advertising under what is called the “Clean City” law. This ban included all…
Mary Grace the Neurotic
“The book struck her directly over her left eye.” If I had a Top 5 Fiction Sentences list, which I probably should, this would be on it. Recently I re-read Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Revelation,” a story about people in…