The Ghosts of Kyiv
By Olivia Kew-Fickus
When I was a student in Kyiv in the 1990s, I was welcomed whole-heartedly into a vibrant community of young, educated Ukrainians, friends who put up with my stumbling Russian and Ukrain... Read More...
The Moving Feasts of Christmas and Epiphany
By Matthew S. C. Olver
The ways of numbering and counting and commemorating the days of the Christmas and Epiphany seasons are enough to leave one’s head spinning. The evidence seems to be that Epiphany on J... Read More...
The Fullness of Time
By Eugene R. Schlesinger
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. (Gal. 4:4-5)
The first Noel was... Read More...
Not Critical Race Theory, Just American History
By Ronald A. Wells
Back in June, Eugene Schlesinger, the editor of Covenant, wrote a fine essay that raised questions about “Critical Race Theory” (CRT). He asked good questions about a phenomenon that many ... Read More...
Out with the Old, In with the Old
By Christopher Wells
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often,” wrote John Henry Newman, with an inter-ecclesial bus ticket in his back pocket. He had doctrinal development in his si... Read More...
The Illusion of “The Present Moment”
By Ronald A. Wells
This essay is a reflection on what some have called “the sacrament of the present moment.” It is in two parts, from experiences a decade apart. It is written by a historian, not a theologian.
Scene One: A Retreat in North Carolina
My me... Read More...
Counterfactual History and the Reformation
By Hannah Matis
Give anyone a time machine and a soupçon of conscience, and an ethical and moral dilemma will, predictably, present itself in due course: for example, let’s kill Hitler! This is, in fact, the... Read More...
Counterfactual
By John Bauerschmidt
Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel, The Man in the High Castle, posits an alternative history, set mostly in a Japanese occupied San Francisco after the Second World War, in which Japan and its... Read More...