Is the Anglican Way Protestant? Via Media with Ron Dart
The Vindication of Tradition and the Post-Secular Age with Ron Dart
The Abolishment of Retribution in the Church Fathers by Derek Flood
I have argued elsewhere that the Church Fathers’ understanding of the atonement was rooted in a model of restorative justice, rather than retributive justice.1 Recently, Garry Williams has written a rebuttal of my article, entitled ‘Penal Substitution and the Church...
Pussy Riot and the Temple Incident – by Brad Jersak
Pussy Riot and the Temple Incident by Brad Jersak I’ve been asking afresh why the political and religious authorities of Jesus’ day thought it necessary to conspire in his death. What did he do or say that constituted a capital crime in their minds? It was...
A Christian Voter’s Guide – by Brian Zahnd
A Christian Voter’s Guide by Brian Zahnd on September 4, 2012 A Christian Voter’s Guide Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting “Which Side Are You On?” I am fine with a Christian voting for Mitt Romney if they feel that action...
Syriac Fathers and Syrian Crisis – Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
Review of Chesterton’s ‘The Everlasting Man’ – by John Ottens
Review of Chesterton's The Everlasting Man Much has been said in praise of Chesterton's The Everlasting Man in the nine decades since it was first published, but somehow it remains today less famous than it deserves to be, by several orders...
The Faith of the Bible — John Ottens
The Faith of the BibleJohn Ottens At some point, a Bible student realizes with dismay that Bible scholars agree on almost nothing.The creation is as perplexing as its consummation; God started making stuff sometime between six thousand and sixteen billion years ago,...
West-East Divan / Goethe – review by Ron Dart
West-East Divan -- The Poems, with “Notes and Essays”: Goethe’s Intercultural Dialogues (2010), with commentary by Martin Bidney. Goethe’s book is a pathbreaker, a boundary-crossing intercultural poetic dialogue—one of the most notable and far reaching...
Arab Spring, Christian Winter – Willam Dalrymple
Fatal lot of Christianity's homelands BY WILLIAM DALRYMPLE WHEREVER you go in the Middle East today, you see the Arab Spring rapidly turning into the Christian winter. The past few years have been catastrophic for the region's beleaguered 14-million strong...