A mother reflects on the opportunities for moral growth, generosity, and compassion presented by our current economic crisis.

Cineaste: Why are there so many silences and so little dialog in your films? Jean-Pierre Dardenne: In fact, The Son is a film about the difficulty of speaking…. We are more interested in trying to give meaning to a scene by the way we film the relations between the characters’ bodies and what gestures a […]

From Notes on the Cinematographer: Accustom the public to divining the whole of which they are given only a part. Make people diviners. Make them desire it. Be as ignorant of what you are going to catch as is a fisherman of what is at the end of his fishing rod. (The fish that arises […]

In this essay David Horstkoetter sets straight the false narrative by Glenn Beck on James Cone, black liberation theology, and the gospel.

Chris Huebner and Tripp York have co-edited a new book that might be of interest to churchandpomo readers: The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation from CMU Press. The book includes a Foreword by John Milbank and contributions from D. Stephen Long, Craig Hovey, C. Rosalee Vellosa Ewell, Peter Dula, and others.  You can […]

This essay asks, “What is money for?” and, in light of the current banking crisis, proposes that lending and borrowing can and should be ordered to the common good.

In “Marrow,” Amy McCann finds something sinister in the supposed comfort and beauty of a late summer evening, the birds roosting at dusk “something to nerve to.”

A friend recommended E. M. Cioran’s On the Heights of Despair (University of Chicago Press, 1996).  Cioran is a kind of 20th century, Romanian Nietzsche who “denounced systematic thought and abstract speculation in favor of indulgence in personal reflection and passionate lyricism.” “I’ve invented nothing,” he said, “I’ve simply been the secretary of my sensations.” It will […]

It’s been said that reformations and revolutions in Christianity begin with a re-reading of Romans. That is certainly true of the Protestant Reformation with Luther’s epoch-shaking insight into the meaning of the phrase “the righteousness of God.” It is true as well of Barth’s commentary The Epistle to the Romans, which in the words of […]