Doug Bandow reviews Jim Wallis’ God’s Politics. He accuses Wallis of making the same error as the Religious Right, namely trying to read a political program straight out of the Bible (caveat: I still haven’t read GP, so I leave it to the reader to decide if Bandow fairly characterizes Wallis’ views): WALLIS PRESENTS HIS…

A prayer for All Saints: O Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one Communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord: Grant us grace so to follow thy blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those indescribable joys which thou hast…

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…