Reviews of W.T. Cavanaugh’s ‘The Myth of Religious Violence’ and ‘Migrations of the Holy’ – by Wayne Northey
Book Review of Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church, William T. Cavanaugh, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011, 200 pages. My thanks to Oxford University Press for a review copy of the first book, and to Eerdmans for a review copy...
Who Would Jesus Shoot? Debate on Just War vs. Nonviolence
A respectful debate on Christian just war vs Christian pacifism. Thanks to Azariah France-Williams, who attended the debate. https://soundcloud.com/bloomsbury-1/who-would-jesus-shoot Prof. Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at...
Russell Brand, Fox News and Charlie Hebdo
I am not Charlie: a Christian response to the killings in Paris – Bob Ekblad
I was deeply troubled by news of this week’s killings of journalists at Charlie Hebdo, France’s beloved satirical newspaper, by two French Muslim brothers of Algerian descent, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi. I’ve been haunted by footage I saw of these gunmen’s...
Mercy-Love – Eric H Janzen
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus begins with a list of blessings. Among these, we find a call to mercy coupled with a promise: Joyful are the merciful, for they shall be rejoicing daily in the mercy they receive. Mercy is important. Perhaps, more important than many...
Review of N.T. Wright’s ‘Simply Good News’ – by Caleb Miller
NT Wright is one of those authors of whom I tell people “buy everything he writes”. Not necessarily because I agree with every assertion he makes, but the level of scholarship with which each topic he discusses is approached. Simply Good News is no...
Thomas Merton: Wild Bird – Ron Dart
Elias becomes his own wild bird, with God in the center, His own wide field which nobody owns, His own pattern, surrounding the Spirit ...
Christ and Nothing – David Bentley Hart
David B. Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian. The original version of this article was delivered as a lecture at a conference on the Ten Commandments held at St. Olaf’s College in Northfield, Minnesota, June 2003, under the joint sponsorship of the Center for...
Each Step By Bloody, Halting Step – Boyd Barrett
New poetry from www.boydbarrett.com Each step by bloody, halting step Each step by bloody, halting step we marched behind a sound which first did barely reach our ears yet louder whispers through the years made firm our trodden ground Each step by bloody,...
The Angel’s Song is not merely a Seasonal Favourite – Henry Smidstra
St. Luke’s Gospel account begins and ends in the temple, a creative, stylistic, arrangement of the Gospel. At the outset, a thin religion of externals is silenced and a whole new era is announced by heavenly voices in the in the open grazing region far distant from...