Sermon by the Rev. Dr. George Lewis Boar-Hays, Vicar of Macomb. ________________ I first heard of the book in 1952, in a footnote. The foot...

In his recent Atlantic essay, “What Were My Dreams Trying to Tell Me?,” Akhtar remembers becoming aware, at twenty years old, of an emptines...

The late writer believed that hearing the natural world is its own form of prayer.

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

Public life has lately offered a familiar spectacle: leaders making sweeping claims, supporters defending them, and facts becoming secondary...

(The second reflection in a series) If Paul opened the door, the early Church Fathers walked through it. The first Christians did not inheri...

(Part 1 in a multipart series on Nolan’s The Odyssey) When the lights came up after Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey , I found myself thinkin...

James Traub's recent review in The Atlantic of David S. Reynolds's Two Ships asks a question that reaches far beyond a single history book...

A few years ago, I asked an artificial intelligence program to describe what it could not do. It answered in the first person. “I am not con...

The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.

The United States is preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. There will be ceremonie...

“America is built on the blood of Native Americans and enslaved Africans. It is not the promised land. And what it has become is the rot tha...

A recent Mother Jones article, “The God Complex” by Kiera Butler, examines the increasingly religious language surrounding artificial intell...

The recent HuffPost article on “exvangelicals” is not especially careful sociology, but it is attentive to a real cultural and theological p...

A pastor was explaining why Donald Trump’s harsh rhetoric did not trouble him. “I don’t want some meek and mild leader or somebody who’s go...

There is a revealing irony at the heart of the recent Texas Monthly article on the quiet collapse of the Southern Baptist Convention.

There is a certain historical symmetry in watching a pope named Leo issue a major social encyclical about artificial intelligence. In 1891, ...

Every now and then, history does us the kindness of putting our complaints in perspective. That is not to say our complaints are unreal. A ...

There is something almost comic in the discovery that ministry does not pay well. Not comic in the sense of trivial. The finances of ministr...

There is a revealing irony at the heart of the recent Texas Monthly article on the quiet collapse of the Southern Baptist Convention. The mo...

Taxation is part of a robust religious ethic since it can reduce inequality, preserve dignity, and define care for the vulnerable as a share...

A recent Vox interview with psychologist Gillian Sandstrom, occasioned by her new book Once Upon a Stranger , makes a simple claim: talking ...

On Ezekiel,  Pulp Fiction,  and the temptation to turn holy words into spectacle There is something revealing about the recent controversy s...

Noah Hawley’s recent essay in The Atlantic , “What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat,” is not finally about luxur...

On Broadway, brain chemistry, and the communal work of being re-storied At the Booth Theatre this spring, Kara Young describes something th...

David DeSteno’s recent New York Times essay raises a striking question: Can artificial intelligence become moral by being trained on religi...

In March, the philosopher Jürgen Habermas died at the age of ninety-six. His passing invites a familiar kind of reflection: not only on a li...