In this short story, Marjorie Maddox provides an insightful and poetic look into the lives of people with masochistic pathologies, people who when “eating an apple [bite] right into the bruise” and can’t help but perpetuate relational and psychological self-harm.
A dear friend, despite her poverty, does all she possibly can to give three children an upbringing full of dignity and hope. A group of friends dances for nearly five hours at an engagement party. Word Made Flesh staff enjoy a fabulous dinner together with great food and wine during the last night of the […]
Fewer measuring devices have more destructive power than those with which we measure ourselves in comparison to others. Those devices are anchored in the power of envy. Envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that cannot be enjoyed by the sinner. Lust at least leaves its sinner titillated. Pride leaves the sinner […]
Many contemporary people, scholars and non-scholars alike, think of the deadly sin of sloth as “mere” laziness. In the words of Evelyn Waugh, “[‘Sloth’] is a mildly facetious variant of ‘indolence,’ and indolence, surely, so far from being a deadly sin, is one of the world’s most amiable of weaknesses. Most of the world’s troubles […]
Ellen Jantzen pushes the bounds of conceptual art with her exhibit of elemental and provocative imagery.
This article is a first-hand account of the unrest in Bolivia, with mobs protesting against brothels and women who prostitute.
An interview with Eugene McCarraher.
In this interview, Charles Marsh examines political movements within Evangelicalism and encourages a reclamation of the language of peace in future Evangelical movements.
Jenson’s article explores the nature of sin in humanity as being curved in on oneself, which has manifestations in men and women as pride and sloth, respectively. Tracing the thought on inward curvature from Augustine to Luther and Barth, and looking at modern feminist critique, Jenson outlines the primary challenges to overcoming a self-focused way of living toward a more outward, Jesus-, and other-focused theological practice.