The Problem of Gay Friendship
Wesley Hill on whether it’s possible to reclaim a classic, orthodox Christian theology of friendship in the context of the gay Christian experience.

Wesley Hill on whether it’s possible to reclaim a classic, orthodox Christian theology of friendship in the context of the gay Christian experience.
Alexander McQueen’s theatrical catwalks presented a conflicted sketch of a miraculous, transformed, and beautiful body consistent with what Charles Taylor has identified as the theologically haunted condition of late-modern Romanticism.
Barbara Brown Taylor discusses the revelatory power of the body and the challenges of practicing embodied faith in a twenty-first-century context.
Recent attention to the body opens a discussion of bodily practices to which St. Paul contributes principles for Christian practice.
The experience of romance, says Kent Dunnington, is an intimation of our destiny as lovers.
In this essay, Collin Cornell interrogates the modern, disenchanted body and explores avenues for reenchantment through two biblical themes, law and powers.
Contemporary art maintains a provocative fascination with the body, and in recent years several key artists have explored the body’s place in the Christian tradition to disquieting ends.
In this essay, Jay Stringer argues that healing and addiction share the same architecture: repetition. The extent to which we turn to face our trauma and shame is the best predictor for the way our story will unfold.
Jocelyn Grau reviews the paintings of Justin Bower.