Charismata

The 20th century's pre-eminent philosopher made the following profoundly Christian statement: The human body is the best picture of...

Maximus the Confessor finds in the heron a supreme example of chastity. How so? They say that a "heron" is a bird, and it lives...

The World Cup is, among other things, a war of national anthems, which themselves usually have some kind of war behind them. These patrioti...

Q & A sessions at the end of a lecture/talk are brilliant, even if the questions tend to be in the form of either a) "Here is an i...

I have been reading Barth for about five years now. My birthday present in 2010 was the Church Dogmatics , which at a special price of $100...

Since I first watched The Wire , I have only watched one TV series in its entirety: The Wire . As of yesterday, that is no longer true. I h...

It's not often a sermon makes front page news. But as I glanced at the newspaper section in Tesco this morning, I read of a "fireb...

Slavoj Zizek likes to tell an anecdote about physicist Niels Bohr. It goes like this: Surprised at seeing a horseshoe above the door of...

I read today that 18 people have been detained during the investigation of the mining disaster in Turkey. As heartless as it might be to mo...