Obama's list of virtues comes in pairs, and the pairings are mutually illuminating. I will, though, examine them not in…
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We are all Christians now
At first glance, Justice is an internecine wrangle between theists (or better put, Christians). On the one side is Alasdair…
The fine texture: A response to Smith
I will respond here to the three postings on The Immanent Frame by James K. A. Smith concerning my Justice:…
Do good philosophers make good citizens?
Perhaps one might argue that Justice: Rights and Wrongs is not simply a contribution to a conversation among philosophers. It…
Justice and rights-talk in liberal democracies
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a profoundly ambitious book. His normative aspiration is nothing less than "speaking up…
Justice and theism
The central claim of Nicholas Wolsterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is that justice is based on natural human rights that inhere…
The cooling embers
Politics is not reducible to elections, of course. Yet these contests---particularly the quadrennial spectacle that is a Presidential race---usually conclude…
A religious war?
Today at The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan writes: 9/11 was a call, in my mind, to defend the Enlightenment from…
Evangelicals and the relational self in Venezuela
Anglophone scholars have long struggled to find a terminology with which to study non-Catholic Christianity in Latin America. We are…
Does tolerance require struggle?
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im's erudite and thought-provoking book Islam and The Secular State provides a clear-sighted argument made from within the…