An old photograph provides a glimpse into a dismal cell at a Nazi prison called Tegel. Wan light falls in…
The birth of a book
Christianity
The “great sinner” myth
Confessions re-emerged into floodlit attention in the Romantic era of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, when it was…
Putting hell on trial
A long-simmering conflict within U.S. evangelicalism came to the fore recently---a conflict which, as Martin Marty points out, may be…
Race and Christian identity
Religion News Service reports that a new book about Christian identity is inadvertently tapping into the U.S.'s racial history.
The cross and the cheeseheads
Where do Christians stand with regard to Wisconsin's euphemistically named "budget repair bill"? That's a question stirring up some debate…
Falling on the sword of the spirit
There is no doubt that anthropology needs new approaches for understanding dramatic change, a new way of figuring the relationship…
Seeing disciplines
In the midst of the interdisciplinary enterprise that Global Christianity, Global Critique undertakes, I want to suggest that the challenge…
After violence, Pakistani Christians convert to Islam
Following recent increases in violence against Christians in Pakistan and other parts of the Middle East, many Christians are feeling…
God, money, and power
At Killing the Buddha, John D. Fitzgerald describes the inside of a little-known conservative Christian college in the heart of…
Immortal mortal
The first of the four posts in this series argued that if we seek a philosophy that encourages us to love this…