George Herbert, the Church, and the Self
George Herbert was a Welsh poet and priest born in 1593 to landed aristocracy. His mother, Magdalene...
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Sabbath and the End of Work
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” When I was a child and was asked this question, I said I wanted...
Pacifism and Politics: The Tank and the Letter
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The Myth of the Christ Figure
Mythological embodiment is a common allusion used in everyday English. A Herculean task is something...
Physician-Assisted Death: A Few Thoughts About the Canadian Situation
In this blog post I am going to make a variety of observations about physician-assisted death (PAD), physician-assisted suicide (PAS), and euthanasia, in no particular order. Note that each observation will be necessarily compact and incomplete; these are not to be taken as definite statements but pieces of a puzzle to be mulled over as I (we, I hope) reflect on Canada’s situation.
Behold your wickedness
100 years ago, two miles from my house, seventeen-year-old Jesse Washington was lynched just outside the...
The Spectacle of Excess: Roland Barthes, Wrestling, and the Eucharist
In 1957, during his structuralist stage, Roland Barthes published a book of collected essays...
Murder and Moral Notions
In Towards Zero, one of Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, Mr. Treves, a retired solicitor and specialist...
How Should We Do Apologetics?
Throughout my life I’ve been simultaneously fascinated and repulsed by apologetics. As a teenager I wanted...
Safety is not a Christian virtue
In 1934, Dietrich Bonhoeffer addressed the ecumenical peace organization World Alliance for International...