This is How we Give Thanks: American-Style
For those of you outside the United States, today is our Thanksgiving. It is our last remaining cultural tip-of-the-hat to that quaint practice of harvest festivals. We...
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A Medieval Where’s Waldo?
While at the Prado in Madrid, I was fortunate to see works by one of my favourite painters, Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Most notably, I saw The Wine of St. Martin’s Day...
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The Passionate God?
It is an old axiom in Christian theology, borrowed from the Greek philosophers but possibly supported by Scripture, that God is unchanging. The reason for this, on the...
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Blessed are the Pure in Heart . . .
… For they shall see God. When Dante visits Heaven (in Paradisio), his guide is, most appropriately, Beatrice. Her name reflects what is known in theology as...
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The Underside of Nonresistance
I am new to the conversation of pacifism. It has always been an uncomfortable one for me to engage in—both because people tend to get heated in debate, and for this...
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