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The Tyranny of “They Say”
“‘They say,’ is the monarch of this country, in a social sense. No one asks ‘who says it,’ so long as it is believed…

On Being a Christian in Late Modernity (Part 6: Modern Civilization as Unhomed Juvenility)
21. Bringing my analysis all the way to the ground, it is one thing to see our quandary, and another to know what to…

“Light-Conveying Light Eternal”: Another Greek Prayer in Verse
I had a lot of fun working on the Greek poem last week, so this week’s “Melancthon Monday” is once again…not Melanchthon. But, Christian…

Southern Puritan Episcopalians
The venerable southern historian and liberal Clement Eaton wrote in 1964 that the “great change in southern religion in 1860 from that of 1800…

A Time To Keep Silence
Are evangelicals right in thinking it is always time to speak?