Patrick Neer

The Briefing 7.31.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Robert Fischell, inventor extraordinaire, claims to have created a device capable of eliminating chronic pain: If the body is a house, the nervous system is its electrical wiring. The network, which has millions of entry […]

Hollis Phelps, Silas Morgan

Special Issue: Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure

At critical moments in the history of Christianity, it is the outsiders, rather than people of faith and the theologians who study that faith, who seem best equipped to tell us the truth about who we are. By all indications, Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure is not directly interested in religion, theology, or  […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 7.23.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week.   What would Pope Francis say about Planned Parenthood? Much of the public discussion in editorials and social media has focused on whether she and other Planned Parenthood employees sold […]

Georgiana Eliot

A Story of Stars and Violence

A story of a student waking up to the genocidal conquest that founded her country and the contemporary reenactments of this violence.

David A. Garner

The Briefing 7.17.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week.   TOJ contributor D.L. Mayfield reflects on pain, loss, and the promises of God: So, in that children’s hospital, I stared into the sun for a little bit.  I’ve been […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 7.9.15

The blog Faith and Theology asks, “What is the opposite of faith?” Let’s start with the Protestant no-no: works. We are justified, put right with God not by works but by faith, faith alone – sola fide – isn’t that, as Luther put it, the doctrine by which the church stands or falls? And wouldn’t […]