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 adop... 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 people evoke but about which they often know littl... 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 theologi... 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 premise of a Doctor Who episode from some years a... 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...
How We Tell the Story (Or, How Christian Nationalism Makes Racism Invisible) By Abigail Woolley Cutter We declared our independence on July 4, 1776. We fought and defeated the British in the Revolutionary War. We expanded across the West. We won World War II. Statements like the... Read More...
