CT interviews Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis’ stepson, who’s just written a biography of Lewis. Snippet: Americans have latched on to C. S. Lewis, and yet here’s a guy who was a chain smoker, who liked his pints, who told ribald jokes, and in general, wouldn’t fit what we think of as the “typical evangelical.” And…

Here are my reflections on Reformation Day from last year. I pretty much stand by everything I wrote then, except that I’m probably more open to the idea of a more robust episcopacy as a sign of church unity. Though I haven’t really given that much thought.

Bush nominates Alito.

This article in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer purports to instruct us that Science has shown that the Virgin Birth couldn’t possibly be true becuase, well, where would Jesus have gotten his Y chromosome if he didn’t have a human father? Jeez, why didn’t I think of that? And, now that you mention it, hasn’t Science shown…

Start coming up with more creative post titles than “[Author] x on [topic] y.”

Since I’ve been on a bit of a Robert Jenson “kick” lately, and it seems germane to this morning’s topic, here’s an excerpt from his 1984 essay “Toward a Christian Theory of the Public” (I’m not sure how much of this Jenson still stands by, but it’s good food for thought anyway): In the economy…

Kim at Crossroads has a very thoughtful post about poverty and how Christians should think about government’s role in responding to it. I left this comment (minor modifications added): I think it’s difficult to get a political philosophy from the Bible because of the circumstances in which it was written. In the NT in particular,…

This is from Lutheran theologian Robert W. Jenson‘s essay “With No Qualifications: The Christological Maximalism of the Christian East,” found in the collection Ancient & Postmodern Christianity: Paleo-Orthodoxy in the 21st Century – Essays in Honor of Thomas C. Oden, edited by Kenneth Tanner and Christopher A. Hall: The Father has defined his deity itself…

Speaking of Bishop Willimon, I liked this talk on “mixing religion and politics.”

William Placher reviews Anglican theologian Oliver O’Donovan’s latest book, The Ways of Judgment, in the Christian Century. O’Donovan is (in)famous for his defense of the idea of “Christendom.” The notion that Christendom was a disaster may be the one thing that unites liberal and “postliberal” theologians these days, but O’Donovan has argued that 1. it’s…