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Sarah Coakley’s important book recommends prayer as a way to an incorporative model of the Trinity.

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. Ta-Nehisi Coates has taken some time to respond to critiques of his slave reparations essay featured here last week: I wanted to take moment to reply to Kevin Williamson’s Case […]

  In looking at prior Mad Men episodes, I argued that the series has taken a slight turn toward absurdity, reflective of the way the passing of an age has taken its toll on Don. Epidemiologists often observe the natural history of a disease by simply watching patients suffer their symptoms over time. In a […]

The Book of Common Prayer formed the Church of England anew every day, but in a way that virtue theory (our dominant way of understanding Christian formation) is poorly equipped to understand.

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. An interesting presentation on the state of the internet and privacy concerns: A few weeks ago, the sociologist Janet Vertesi gave a talk about her efforts to keep Facebook from […]

It has reached the status of a colloquialism to claim that sometimes “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Most Westerners today occasionally say or hear this phrase without giving it a second thought. But in fields such as metaphysics and the philosophy of science, the main idea that this phrase is […]

Over the past several decades, theologians have turned to new methodologies to better understand how cultural situations shape lived faith and, in particular, the church. While these new methodologies have their origins in the social sciences, their adoption by theologians has both complicated and constructed new theological thinking for contemporary ecclesiology. This essay traces the […]

Though I think a lot about church practice, I don’t write much on it. My writing, for better or worse, tends to be very intentionally philosophical and offered in the aim of inviting a broader readership into the technical debates of philosophy of religion. The one main exception to this general trajectory, though, is a […]

 At all events, perhaps no writer has ever wielded this terrific thought with greater terror than this same harmless Hawthorne. Still more: this black conceit pervades him, through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight,–transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you;–but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; […]