Coleridge: Catholic Jon Fosse’s Nobel, Bill Watterson’s Mysteries, and Sufjan Stevens’s Faith Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Art History In Washington, D.C., the Catholic Art Institute will host a Christmas tour of the National Gallery on Dec... Read More...
Violence and Lament, Justice, Peace, and Hope A Sermon for Parents’ Weekend, 2023 at St. James School By D. Stuart Dunnan He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk ... Read More...
Dead Piepers Society This article contains spoilers if you haven’t seen Dead Poets Society. By Neil Dhingra In a distinctly sad moment in Dead Poets Society (1989), Peter Weir’s film about John Keating, an inspiring if ill-fa... Read More...
Who Jesus Is, and Why That Matters for the Church: Remembering Carl Braaten By Andrew Christiansen Carl E. Braaten (1929-2023) was blessed with a long life, and was an active theologian for most of it, even up until a few years ago. Braaten was born in Madagascar to Lutheran mission... Read More...
The Great Conspiracy By Charlie Clauss You can’t reason a man out of a position he didn’t reason himself into in the first place. —Mark Twain Discussion of conspiracy theories has become a common theme in public discourse. We ca... Read More...
Kneel Down and Fight By Clint Wilson Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1990s was, like so many other Southern cities, struggling to find an identity and possessing a hollowed-out urban core before the generation that would usher in re... Read More...
My Life as a Bible Teacher By Christopher Holmes I am a systematic theologian by training, disposition, and vocation. I am grateful for this call, difficult and daunting though it is. What has surprised me most as I muddle along throu... Read More...
They Ran Out of Wine A Short Story By Carter Keithley It rained the whole way for the four-hour drive from Chicago’s O’Hare airport to the wedding venue. I was driving a huge beast of a rental car, an oversized pickup truck, t... Read More...
