Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” – review by Ron Dart
When New Directions decided to publish the first English translation of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha in 1951, it could never have foreseen the enormous impact it would have on American culture. —Paul Morris (p. xiii) Hinduism has been much misunderstood in the West...
A Rainbow Seen through Celtic Eyes – Fr. David Jones
How is possible that a Republican political activist (at the national, state and county levels), an advisor to a very conservative former U.S. Senator and Republican candidate for President who nearly won his party’s nomination to be President, and a conservative...
Q&R WITH BRAD JERSAK: “UNDER GRACE, ARE WE STILL ‘SINNERS’? IS CONFESSING SIN A DENIAL OF GRACE?”
QUESTION Under grace, are we still ‘sinners’? Is confessing sin a denial of grace? What about saying “the Lord’s Prayer,” which asks God to forgive our sins? Some grace teachers regard the Lord’s Prayer as Old Covenant since Jesus taught it before the Cross and at the...
Lamentations and (Anti)Theodicy – Mark P. Stone
“Theodicy: Ça se déconstruit” Those words were too much, too little was said, understood, imagined. Win your peace, vindicate your god, it is pyrrhic, brittle. I thumb the pages of that same old text, and hope—quelled to bare velleity, dim and frail—whimpers o’er...
Authentic Christianity versus Ascendant American Christendom – Kenneth Tanner
What we see Christians doing and saying in the name of Jesus Christ in this country is alarming, frustrating, disturbing and—yes—angering. I tend to the wounded daily. I see the tears in their eyes and hear the hurt in their hearts. I witness the harm and it crushes...
Guest Post: A Muslim Reflection on the Beatitudes by Safi Kaskas
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of respectful interfaith dialogue, www.Clarion-Journal.com welcomes Safi Kaskas, a noted Islamic scholar, peacemaker, and translator of the Qur’an to share an eight-day reflection on the Beatitudes from a Muslim perspective. A...
Origen, Literalism & the Modern Marcionite Irony – Fr. Kenneth Tanner
As a pastor who deals (almost daily) with the devastation wrought in souls by bad readings of Scripture, I wish every contemporary Christian on the planet could read this passage. It’s the beginning of a section called “How the Divine Scripture is to be read and...
Dart and Packer’s “Christianity and Pluralism” – Review by Brad Jersak
Review of Ron S. Dart and J.I. Packer, Christianity and Pluralism (Lexham Press, 2019), 70 pages. Christianity and Pluralism is a fresh and poignant new edition of a booklet first composed just over two decades ago, titled In a Pluralist...
“Evangelicals, Donald Trump & American Political Culture” – Podcast: Molly Worthan with David Goa
Podcast - Molly Worthan In Conversation with David Goa CLICK HERE TO HERE THE PODCAST I welcome you to our conversation on President Trump, the evangelicals and what is unfolding in American political culture. In this podcast I have the pleasure of...
Religious Addiction – Vladika Lazar Puhalo
One thing that is not appreciated enough is the difference between faith and an addiction to religion. Religious addiction follows the same vector lines as any other addiction. Religious addiction is certainly not the same thing as normal faith. It is learned...