The Spiritual Lessons of Table Reading
肚兜揉弄娇乳hThere are many ways in which convent life can change a person for the better, and not all are obvious to the untrained eye. Take, for example, table reading. In my Dominican convent, as in many convents around the world,...
The Bostock Ruling with Tim Schultz
Tim Schultz, president of the 1st Amendment Partnership, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to protecting religious freedom for Americans of all faiths, joins Matt, Derek, and Alastair to discuss the Bostock v. Clayton County ruling. The discussion includes an overview of...
Covenants and the Common Good: Toward a Renewed Politics
Only a few paragraphs into Genesis and the age-old tensions between the individual and society are already beginning to emerge. The story begins with one Individual formed in the image of God, with individual dignity and worth. Yet it is...
Beauty Spots
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“Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World,” with Dr. Tara Isabella Burton
While formal religious adherence has decreased in the modern age, spirituality has not. To answer why intuitions seem to be replacing institutions, Dr. Tara Isabella Burton joins Matt, Derek, and Alastair to discuss her new book, Strange Rites: New Religions...
The Israeli Unity Government, Explained
When Israelis awoke on the morning of Sunday, May 17, something was different. By the end of the day, for the first time in over 500 days, they were in a country with a fully functional government. For almost a...
The Sweeping View of the Gospel in Colossians
Paul’s letter to the Colossians rarely gets the attention it deserves. It may not offer the therapeutic comfort of Philippians or a much-needed guidance amidst mounting ethical concerns as in his Corinthian letters. However, in Colossians, Paul offers one of...
Seven Notes on Bostock v Clayton County and the Future of Social Conservatism
At this point anyone concerned with the future of religious institutions in the United States is already aware of this week’s ruling in?Bostock v Clayton County. (Oyez has the key facts; the folks at Volokh Conspiracy put together a summary...
Political Modesty, for Better and Worse
Confessional Reformed Protestants are a tiny sliver of the broader Christian community. Still, when it comes to intellectual heft we like to think we punch above our weight. While this may not always be true, David VanDrunen’s decade-long effort to...
QAnon and The Church
Matt, Derek, and Alastair sit down to discuss why people are attracted to conspiracy theories. Listen in to hear the difference between credulity and conspiracy, why fringe groups matter, and how to handle those in the church who embrace QAnon...