sin

Samuel J. Youngs explores sin and traumatization with Jürgen Moltmann.

Rose Schrott explores how The Bachelor and American antebellum conceptions of sin invite the white church to reimagine sin and rethink racism.

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell riffs on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom of Dante Alighieri.

Christian love is the antithesis of sin, and it can end the separation in everyday life caused by spectacular capitalism.

I’m profoundly grateful to these scholars for taking time to carefully, critically, and charitably engage the second edition of The Fall of Interpretation—and in the summer, of all things!  This kind of constructive engagement is a real gift to an author, and I’m glad to have the opportunity to continue the conversation by replying to […]

In this interview Paul Griffiths discusses the contours of a Christian understanding of evil—what it is, what it isn’t, and how Christians can acknowledge it without succumbing to it.

In a recent re-reading of the classic graphic novel Watchmen (a reading spurred by the not-too-distant theatrical release), it was noticed that despite being written nearly thirty years ago near the climax of the Cold War, Watchmen holds its force still.  The classic work written by Alan Moore with art by Dave Gibbons, recounts a […]

A review of Peter Goodwin Heltzel’s JESUS AND JUSTICE, a book that traces the historical legacy of evangelicalism, particularly in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr. and Carl F. H. Henry; describes the impact of this legacy on four contemporary evangelical organizations; and suggests new ways of understanding race and political life in America.

A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.