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 […]
A character study examining the human desire for permanence and importance apart from normative life in Birdman.
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 […]
A college intern interviews torture survivors for the United Nations in a refugee camp and finds herself struggling with secondary trauma.
This piece explores the social psychology of judgment, how this affects our evaluation of film, and how such influences might be mined for their theological significance.
Theology is one of the ways in which we repress anxiety, and though repression often produces fictitious ideas that do not work, the anxiety it covers does not lie.
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. The Post and Courier further personalizes last week’s tragedy in Charleston: People talk and visit and sit in white fold-out chairs at round tables with white tablecloths set out across […]
How a documentary film that simulates an encounter with an alien life form may be challenging to our theological sensibilities.
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. One of J. Louis Martyn’s former students reflects on his life: The originality of his work will surely never cease to gain admirers. His unique voice was unmistakable and could […]