Listening to a sermon on Mark 10 yesterday, I was struck by a juxtaposition in Jesus’ encounter with the rich, young ruler in Mark 10:17-31. Specifically, after the young ruler has announced–quite sincerely, I think–that he has kept all the commandments from his youth, Mark tells us in his typically direct language: Jesus, looking at…
In case you missed it, see A Postcard from Q, my final post over at The Twelve blog.
A couple of years ago the editor of Faith and Economics asked me to be part of a published exchange with J. David Richardson, Professor of Economics & International Relations at Syracuse University. Dave and I had some cordial exchanges when I organized a conference on secularity and globalization back in 2005 (which resulted in…
Details have been confirmed for my New College Lectures at the University of New South Wales, May 23-26, 2012. And my romantic medievalism (with debts to Ruskin and Rossetti) just loves this poster.
Over at The Twelve blog, I’ve just put up a post that critically engages N.T. Wright’s argument in How God Became King. In some ways, it’s a response not only to his published argument but also some face-to-face encounters we’ve had over the past few months. It’s not comprehensive, but perhaps registers a point of…
Lionel Trilling classic work of criticism, The Liberal Imagination, has been a companion for me over the past several months (and makes a brief cameo appearance in Imagining the Kingdom). It’s difficult for us to read now, over fifty years later, because almost everything has changed, including our perception of “liberal”–and so we almost inevitably…