Sancta Salus
By Michael B. Cover
Twenty years from now, scholars of American civil religion — a term which covers everything from the Deism of the founding fathers to the “blood hymns” of the Civil War to the role of pro... Read More...
“Don’t Cheat on God”: The Seventh Commandment
By Brandt L. Montgomery
In “Faith of My Father,” I recalled how God made possible the reunion between my late father and I in 1997, following a seven-year estrangement. I further recounted Dad’s pastor descr... Read More...
The Second Commandment: Imagination and Contemplation
Part of a series on the Ten Commandments.
By Mac Stewart
One of my favorite TV shows as a little kid was Reading Rainbow. In a book, the theme song said, you can go twice as high; you can be a king and live in castles and battle dragons; you can fly int... Read More...
The Church and human rights: Michael Ignatieff on idolatry
Churches face difficult decisions on matters of human rights because some discussions of the topic, like Ignatieff’s, present an alternative moral worldview with which Christians have overlapping concerns.
Hate your own political party
Jesus’ words might mean, “Whoever does not hate his own political party cannot be my disciple.”
Is idolatry impossible?
Perhaps it is time for us Christians to stop imagining that anyone really desires anything more than God.
Why we do this
Receiving the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist is treated like a weekly Pill by some of us.