We’ve sent the Winter 2013 issue of Comment to press. It will hit iPads in a couple of weeks and mailboxes soon thereafter. It’s another rich conversation with contributions by Mako Fujimura, Roberta Ahmanson, Lukas Naugle, and many more. Check out the Table of Contents here. Our theme for this issue is Patronage, inviting you to…
I’m just wrapping up a doctoral seminar at Calvin Theological Seminary on Oliver O’Donovan’s moral and political theology. We focused on close readings of Resurrection and Moral Order, 2nd ed. (1994) and Desire of the Nations (Cambridge, 1999), along with some critical readings by Jonathan Chaplin and Nicholas Wolterstorff. We didn’t have time to give proper…
When I was enlisted as editor of Comment magazine, one of my first hopes was to launch a tablet version of the magazine within the year. Given the incredible work of our team, that dream is now a reality: the Comment iPad app is now available. In addition to its functionality, we see the iPad version as…
As you’ll note, this blog has been languishing (how many first lines of blog posts are some version of that?). What time I have for blogging is now generally spent at the Cardus Daily. More significantly, I spend most of my off-the-cuff energy on Twitter (@james_ka_smith). [If you’re not on Twitter, do consider it. I’ve…
I’m very excited for people to read the Fall issue of Comment magazine, devoted to the decidedly un-hip theme, “We Believe in Institutions.” If you subscribe by Monday, September 9, you’ll be assured that your subscription will begin with this issue. And, lo and behold, we’re also having a summer subscription sale! So seriously, what are…
Cover image by Madison Smith I’m happy to share the news that my new book, Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture is now available from Calvin College Press, Amazon, and hopefully your local bookseller. (A Kindle version is also available for just $7.99, and an Apple iBook version will be available soon.)…