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- A Soundtrack for Hope: A Spotify Playlist for AWAITING THE KING
- Thank God for Committees: Contribution to a Reformation Day Panel
- Translation and the Afterlife of Words: A few thoughts on Ruden’s new translation of the Confessions
- On “orthodox Christianity”: some observations, and a couple of questions
- Mortality and My Library
- 2016: The Year in Reading
- Sonic Habits: Thoughts on an Advent Hymn
- An American Lent
- Liturgical Lessons from Ryan Adams’ 1989
- “Do not be intimidated by the torrent of impiety”
- On Fatherless Days
- In Memoriam: Helen Piett
- Comment subscription DEAL: Buy one, get one free! (til Dec. 4)
- Responding to a Common Critique of “Who’s Afraid of Relativism?”
- Charles Taylor, Tanya Luhrmann, Margaret Somerville, Alissa Wilkinson & More: All in the next issue of Comment!
- Labor Day Lament: A Poem
- Sending our Daughter Off to College: A Guest Post by Deanna
- We Need More Than Liturgy: AGREED
- On “Courage” in the (Christian) Academy
- O.K. Bouwsma on philosophers and philosophy
- An Immigrant’s Drive Through America’s Heartland
- Reframing the Imagination: On Wes Anderson’s Formalism
- Book Giveaway: WHO’S AFRAID OF RELATIVISM?
- Faithful Compromise
- For My Epitaph
- Douthat on Social Liberalism as Class Warfare
- Continuing a Conversation with the Westmont Four
- 2013: The Year in Writing
- Favorite Reads 2013: The Year of Biography
- A Flourishing Detroit Requires More Than an Influx of Cash
- Patronage: Being Intentional About our Cultural Investments
- Whither Oliver O’Donovan?
- Comment Magazine iPad App
- “The Enlightened Conservative”
- “We Believe in Institutions”: The Fall Issue of Comment
- New Book: “Discipleship in the Present Tense”
- On the American Dream: Families, Flourishing, and Upward Mobility
- Naturalizing “Shalom”: Confessions of a Kuyperian Secularist
- Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture: “Part bombshell, part pastoral epistle”
- Reformed Gifts for the Church Catholic: My Response to Todd Billings
- Reformed, Catholic, Evangelical: On J. Todd Billings
- Natural Law and a “Christian Pragmatism”: A Note on David Bentley Hart
- Meet Comment (magazine) Again for the First Time
- Building and Stewarding “Common Grace Ministries”
- Imagining the Kingdom: Some Video Introductions
- Paternalism and the Pursuit of “the Common Good”
- Monday Morning Musing: God Doesn’t Need our Help
- Two Cheers for Javert
- What’s the Story with “Story?”
- Imagining the Kingdom: Endorsements
- Books & Culture Podcast: On (Anti-)Intellectualism & the Church
- Big News: JKAS editor of Comment magazine
- Ecclesiology and Ethnography: A Response
- This Old House
- What is The Colossian Forum All About?
- A Christian Sociology? On Oppenheimer on the Regnerus Affair
- John Calvin’s Catholic Faith
- A Generational Shift in Christian Philosophy?
- Is Ours a “Galileo” Moment?: Re-posturing the Faith/Science Dialogue
- Sanctification *for* Ordinary Life: Is “all of life” worship?
- The Gift of Constraints: Further Thoughts on Tradition & Innovation
- Book Annotation: Toddler Edition
- Annotating Texts: Some Suggestions (with Pictures!)
- How (Not) To Be Worldly: Tracing the Borders of the “Earthly City”
- Closing Lines: Eliot’s Middlemarch
- Why Weigel’s Wrong: On Liturgy and the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
- Detroit Free Press Op-Ed: Further Thoughts on Penn State and “Cultural Change”
- Musings on Penn State, the NCAA sanctions, and “Cultural Change”
- A Symposium on “The Fall of Interpretation” @ ChurchandPomo
- “Practically Human”: An Invitation to the Liberal Arts
- Teaching & Christian Practices: A Substantive Engagement
- Hegel on Education
- The Drama of Belief: Tony Kushner on Theatre
- “The Devil Has All the Best Stories”: JKAS on ABC’s “Encounter”
- The Colossian Forum Blog
- Tradition FOR Innovation
- Picturing “Church” & “State”: Crayer’s “Benedict receiving Totila”
- A Photographic Allegory
- Scholarship as a Way of Life
- Letter to a Son Who’s Graduating
- Generational Blackmail?
- An Engagement with “Two Kingdoms” Thought
- Confessions, Generations, and the Future of the CRC
- Situating “The Fall of Interpretation” in a Corpus
- Theological Interpretation of Scripture and “The Fall of Interpretation”
- What’s New in the 2nd ed of “The Fall of Interpretation?”
- Video: 2nd edition of “The Fall of Interpretation”
- Once an evangelical…: On Balmer on Douthat
- Making Christianity Sexy Takes Imagination
- Review of Enns’ “Evolution of Adam”
- What kind of love is this?
- A Post Card from Q
- Faith, Economics, and Globalization: An Exchange with J. David Richardson
- New College Lectures: Poster and Details
- Kings, Creeds, Canon: Musing on Wright’s “How God Became King”
- Kirsch on Trilling on Forster on Liberalism
- Professionalism, Virtue, and Education: Ravitch meets Brooks meets Murray
- The Post-Secular in Question
- Twitter clarification – @james_ka_smith
- Re:Tune My Heart to Sing Your Praise: Symposium Audio
- Postscript to “An Open Letter to Praise Bands”
- We’re All Atheists Now
- An Open Letter to Praise Bands
- C’est fini
- New College Lectures 2012: JKAS in Australia
- A Discovery: Wilco on Austin City Limits
- “Love me, I’m a liberal”
- Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” Revisited
- “Radical Orthodoxy and Political Theology”: Grad Course @ Trinity College
- Constrained to be Free: On “Freedom” Software
- Adele as Allegory
- @C3Nashville Conference, March 1-3, 2012
- The Kids Are Not All Right (cross-posting)
- The Fall of Interpretation, 2nd edition
- More Lessons from Bellow: Our Schilder?
- Kahneman :: Brooks :: McGilchrist
- Q Gathering 2012: Washington, DC
- In Memory of Christopher Hitchens
- Condensing Taylor’s “A Secular Age”
- Local Bookstore Event, Friday, December 9, 7:30pm
- Learning to be Reformed from a Jewish Novelist
- A Conversation about Church Planting
- More Light, Less Heat in the Faith & Science Conversation
- Taking Leave of Religion? On Secular Religion
- My Rock Star Colleagues
- The Colossian Forum: Reframing the Faith & Science Conversation
- A Peculiar People: Sifting “Dutch” and “Reformed”
- On Saul Bellow @ The Twelve Blog
- The Hidden Meaning of Hand-Raising
- Hughes + Shakespeare
- New Books
- Beware Bad Metrics: College Graduate Salary Statistics
- Jobs, Dubya, and Leadership
- Church and Pomo Reboot
- Theology, Human Origins, and the Church: A Conversation
- From Coffee Shop to Book Shop
- Prospects for a Christian Philosophical Anthropology: An Exchange with Christian Smith
- The Other Journal: Print Edition
- Review Essay on Christian Smith and David Kelsey
- The Contradictions of David Brooks
- In Praise of Elites
- Yeats on Blake on the Imagination
- Jane Kenyon, “Notes from the Other Side”
- On Being Careful about the Charge of “Pietism”
- Orwell for Labor Day
- (Liberal) Skepticism vs. (Orthodox) Doubt
- On Misunderstanding David Brooks Redux
- On Misunderstanding David Brooks
- Warren Buffett: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
- On X-Games and Nostalgia
- On Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
- On the State of Contemporary Theology
- The Excremental and Sacramental: More Gems from Wolfe’s Letters
- Woody Allen on Nostalgia: On “Midnight in Paris”
- Unconscious Writing
- The Fall of Interpretation, 2nd edition
- The Downside of “Professional Competence”: Adam Gopnik
- Later Wittgenstein on Philosophy
- Saunders, “Home”
- Word Guild Awards 2011
- A Liturgical Turn in Cultural Theory
- Blogging from the Calvin Summer Seminars
- Bookish Fate and Bibliographical Providence
- On the Temptations of Christian Higher Education
- I’ll feel better about watching “Hangover 2″…
- For Your (Post-Rapture) Listening Pleasure
- The Risks of Fatherhood
- Manhattan this Weekend
- Dream Small: A Commencement Address
- A Letter to Young Parents
- Public Intellectuals: Across the Channel, Across the Pond
- Once (and only once) more on the “new universalism”
- No Country for Philosopher-Kings
- Claude Ely and the Pentecostal Roots of Rock’n’Roll
- Interview on WGVU’s “Common Threads”
- Korean translation of “Introducing Radical Orthodoxy”
- Can hope be wrong? On the new universalism
- “Vague” Religion: Brooks, Taylor, and the “Book of Mormon” Musical
- On Loving (and Being Loved By) David Foster Wallace
- The Candid Decorator
- An Ode to Rory McIlroy
- Heads in the Fiscal Sand
- Zac Brown Band & James Taylor on the ACM Awards
- Book Notes and Book Reviews on Scribd
- For the DTK DVD
- Kierkegaard on kenosis and ascension
- Fishers of Men?
- Julian Barnes on Joyce Carol Oates
- Literary Relics
- A Reformed Prayerbook
- Why is neurology so fascinating?
- Conversations on Classical Education
- Kindle Edition of “Thinking in Tongues”
- An Ash Wednesday “Hymn”?
- Josh Ritter’s Novel
- Culture Shift: Chiasson on Mass Availability
- The Spirit of Knowledge: Lecture Video
- Interview @ the Evangelical Philosophical Society Blog
- Architectural Criticism: On Gehry’s Manhattan Tower
- A Secular Age: The Seminar
- Cultural Liturgies, Vol. 1.5
- Letters to the Young
- Calvin Symposium on Worship
- Answers to More Questions about the New Calvinism
- Super/Natural: A Response to Berger
- The Incarnation is Local: On the Poetry of John Rybicki
- Super Sad True Love Story
- Answers to Questions about the New Calvinism
- The Politics of the (New) Unconscious
- Video excerpts from U of Ottawa lecture
- Ethnography and Theology
- Whence & Whither American Presbyterianism? On Hart and Muether’s History
- On Flash Mobs and Secular Liturgies
- Letter to a Young Baptist
- Win a copy of “Letters to a Young Calvinist”
- Local “Letters to a Young Calvinist” Events
- The Secularization of Thanksgiving and the Sacralization of the Military
- “Secular” Liberal Arts Education? Or Still “Secularist?”
- Farewell Facebook: My Short-Lived Experiment
- Semper aggiornamento? On “Always Reforming”
- Barna Report on the “New Calvinism”
- A Revolution in Grading
- An Appendix to “Desiring the Kingdom”
- Charles Matthewes on “Narrow” Audiences
- Interviews on the Interwebs
- Theology and Race: A “Duke School?”
- Letters to a Young Calvinist Facebook Page
- Kuyper for Piper: “Letters to a Young Calvinist” now available
- Academic Conference Rules
- Room for Theology in “Theory”: New Signs in SAQ
- Douthat on Smith on Religious “Knowledge”
- Men at Forty
- On the Pew Survey of Religious Knowledge @ Immanent Frame
- Review of “Hipster Christianity”
- Those Winter Sundays
- My Interview with James Davison Hunter
- Q & A on Pentecostalism and Philosophy
- Sept. 30: “On the Very Idea of Pentecostal Philosophy”
- On the Facebook
- How (Not) to Change the World: On James Davison Hunter
- Bacevich on American Militarism (Redux)
- Summer Reading
- In Memoriam: Donald Bloesch
- Science and the Spirit now available
- Desiring the Kingdom App?
- Clark Pinnock, 1937-2010
- “The Good News” According to Mad Men
- Contra Critchley @ The Stone
- James K.A. Smith @ GoodReads
- I Love in order to Understand: Newman on Imagination and Intellect
- Mat Hoffman, BMX, and the Birth of Big Air
- On the Poetry of Charles Wright
- Democrat Paradise
- Hitchens’ Faith
- Wilde Theology
- What I’m Listening To: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
- 3 Returns to Daytona
- Thinking in Tongues / Science and the Spirit
- An Emergent Ecclesiology?
- Oscar Wilde on Aspirations
- Why We Go to Church
- A Reading Program for “Eccentric Existence”
- On David Kelsey’s “Eccentric Existence”
- I Miss John Updike
- Imminent Arrival: Thinking in Tongues
- In Praise of Popularizers
- We’re All Demographics Now
- On Sportianity: Whence Our Assimilation?
- Blog Theology
- Playing for What?
- DFW on Freedom
- Good Game: A Book Everyone Should be Talking About
- Reflections on a Graduation
- (Re)articulating Redemption
- Wrighting Rorty
- Lilla on Libertarians, Left & Right
- Somebody’s not tithing…
- Interview: On Christian Scholarship (and Teaching)
- Well, You Knew This Was Coming
- Notes for a Book I’ll Never Write
- More of the Same? Obama’s CIA
- A Reformed Spirit: Cognac
- Society of Vineyard Scholars
- Absence as a Window: On Franz Wright
- Formation as the Mission of Public Schools
- More Public, Less Intellectual?
- Out and About
- Poetry and the End of Theology
- The Church, Christian Scholars, and “Little Miss Sunshine”
- May Music Samplers
- For the Record, Cont’d
- For the Record
- Forthcoming: Thinking in Tongues
- What I’m Listening To: Mumford & Sons
- The Other Journal Podcast
- Life from Death: Of Soil and Stones Rolled Away
- New Season of Deadliest Catch
- Woodward Theological Society (and another DTK Interview)
- Happy Robbie Burns Day
- Calvinism for the 21st Century
- Reviews and Interviews: DTK Around the Web
- Giving to Haiti
- Blogging Thomas Merton
- What I’m Listening To: The Charlie Poole Project
- T.R. Reid on Healthcare @ The January Series
- 2009 Englewood Honor Books
- Rick Warren’s 900-ft. Jesus?
- Top Reads 2009: Recap (and “Bonus Tracks”)
- Remember the Feast(s)
- Christianity and the Crash
- Q&A on “Desiring the Kingdom” at ThinkChristian.net
- Top Reads 2009
- Sentimental?
- Two to Remember in Your Year-End Giving
- Still Hope?
- “Wendy and Lucy”
- Race, History, and Christian Intellectuals
- We Learn to Love
- “Rethinking the Secular and the Religious” at the University of Guelph
- Giving Thanks to Who?
- Our “Other Education”
- Thanks Be to God for Robert Brandom
- January Series: Remote Locations
- Fearless Speech, Courageous Eyes
- Room for Martyrs?
- My Calling (or, Three Cheers for Dilettantes!)
- Lest We Forget
- Korean Edition of “Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?”
- This Has to be Illegal, but I’ll Take It
- The Taste of Remembrance
- Yorkshire, Place, and Faith
- The Tyranny of Email
- I’ve Loved You So Long
- The Problem with “Free Speech”
- Peguy: The Mystery of Hope
- New Small Joy
- Faith, Film, and Justice in Seattle
- Holmes and Naugle on “Desiring the Kingdom”
- What Freedom? Whose Rights?
- Radio Interview on “Desiring the Kingdom”
- “Thinking in Tongues” is Finished!
- Gopnik on Ignatieff
- Universities and the Pursuit of Doubt
- Summer Reading at Immanent Frame
- Canadian Letters: Jameson on Margaret Atwood
- Philosophy: Harrowing Tales from “the Discipline”
- Decadence, Aestheticism, and Grace: A Theology & Literature Course at Regent College
- Whose “God in the Quad?”
- Reading Habits
- CT Review of “Desiring the Kingdom”
- The Mathematics of Despair
- Desiring the Kingdom: Read an Excerpt
- “Devil Reads Derrida” Interview
- The Lies of Country Music
- Mad (Adulterous) Men
- Arrival
- Remembering Frank McCourt
- O, Canada: A Collection of Hymns by Ex-Pats
- Kazin on Magazine Writing
- Book Launch Event at Literary Life Bookstore, June 18, 7pm
- On Being a “Popularizer”
- Poetry Reading at Literary Life
- What’s Right with the Prosperity Gospel?
- Catholic Republicans?: Brooks on Ford
- The Death of Philosophers
- The End of the University?
- The End of Which Philosophy? On David Brooks
- “I feel the need–the need for speed”
- Wolterstorff Redux: An Update
- Post-Secular Conference at Yale
- A-Political Science?
- Proof(s) of Happiness, Books of Sadness
- On Wolterstorff’s “Justice” @ Immanent Frame
- OK, You’re Offended. And…?
- Philosopher in Residence at …?
- The End of (Poetic) Greatness?
- More on Updike, with Nicholson Baker
- John Updike, RIP
- Inauguration Poem by Elizabeth Alexander
- Fish on the Fate of University, Inc.
- The Devil Reads Derrida: forthcoming
- Brooks on Gladwell: Not Quite
- Mr. Johnson’s Critical Wisdom
- On the “Uses” of Literature
- Goodbye “Holiday” Feasting, Hello Advent?
- Lest We Forget: On NOT Picturing the War in Iraq
- Canada: The Movie
- Fish on Academic Freedom, Again
- “Desiring the Kingdom” Cover
- Just for Fun
- “Speed Racer,” Common Grace, and “Progress”
- New Book: The Logic of Incarnation
- Poetic Musings at AAR
- The Radicality of Marriage
- Adam Smith on Taxation
- Just Charity: A Follow-up to some Questions
- Just Charity: “Charity” and “Compulsory Income Redistribution”
- Snyder on Many Modes of “Understanding”: More on Poetry
- The Church as Poetry?
- What’s in a name? Adieu, Work Research Foundation
- Joe Six-Pack called…
- Evangelicals and Empire
- Christ and Culture Revisited
- Brooks on the Decline of the Republican Party
- “Thinking in Tongues” from First Things
- Federal Elections the Canadian Way: Give me 5 Weeks
- What I’m Reading: Wood, Flaubert, Mailer, etc.
- A New Kind of Politics? Or the Same Old “Religion?”
- Is “the American Dream” a Christian Dream?
- The Orwell Diaries
- On Evangelicalism at Immanent Frame
- “Desiring the Kingdom” is Finished!
- Azusa Street as Postmodern Revival @ Azusa Remixed
- The Who, Augustine, and American Beauty
- Salman Rushdie in The Guardian
- Farewell to Generous Orthodoxy’s “Think Tank”
- The End of Death’s Reign? Morning Musings on Coldplay
- Orwell: On the Invisible Underbelly of our Consumption
- Teaching a Calvinist to Dance
- Remember Burma
- Neoconservatives, New Conservatives, and Old Tories
- An Evangelical Manifesto?
- Dreaming of Kings with Ruskin
- Medievalism Makes the New York Times
- Night Visions from The Guardian
- Comment Interview
- Stark’s “Creative” History
- Ruskin, Work, and ‘The Nature of the Gothic’
- Rowan Williams is Not a “Liberal”
- Rowan Williams, Sharia Law, and the End of the Liberal State: Take 2
- The Archbishop’s Regensburg?
- The (European) Empire Strikes Back
- The Primary Race: Views from England
- Post Card from York
- Dusting for the Invisible Hand’s Fingerprints
- Wanted: A Conservatism Sans…
- The Last Prophet of Leviathan
- Baptismal Promises and Automobility
- Quintessence of Dust
- What’s Your “Walk Score?”
- The God of Americanism: On Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America”
- The Gospel of Freedom, or Another Gospel?
- Advent vs. “Countdown to Christmas”
- Jesus for President
- Pot, Meet Kettle; Kettle, let me introduce you to Pot
- From Conservativism to Creedalism: David Brooks on the Republican Forgetting of Burke
- Measuring GPMs: The God-O-Meter
- Prince’s Private Army
- The Real “Fors Clavigera”
- Why Are We Here? Or, Can One Still Get an Education at a University?
- Harlequin NASCAR: I’M. NOT. KIDDING.
- Selective Outrage: Murder in America
- Tourism & Revisionist History
- Hilton, Hotels, and Hospitality: Oh, the Irony
- You know things are bad when you start agreeing with David Brooks…
- More on Hitchens; and More Chalmers Johnson on America Empire
- Why I Don’t Have “Christian” Bumper Stickers…
- A Glitch re: Hitch
- Hitchens’ Decline
- The Pope in Brazil: Liberation Theology Revisited
- Jeff Sharlet Audio
- Equality Riders @ Calvin College
- Stark Options in France
- New Obsession: The Deadliest Catch
- Secchia’s Economic Logic
- Internet Politics: Take a Survey
- Jeff Sharlet @ Calvin College
- Required Reading: International News
- Chicks Rule!, or Art and Ideology
- Edwards and the “T”-word
- Sunday “Snow Day”
- A Soundtrack for American History?
- Where’s Hitchens on Carter?
- Carbon Credits: Cheap Grace?
- “No Iraqi Left Behind?”
- Pray for the Peace of Bethlehem
- Auden: A “Boxing Day” Selection
- Where’s the World’s Wealth?
- Surprise, Surprise
- Who “Supports Our Troops?”
- The Pope in Turkey
- Scientism Evangelistic Rally
- Postcard from Belgium
- God’s Politics?
- Praying for Ted
- A Miscellany
- The Lonely Commute
- Do Tax Breaks “Establish” Religion?
- Driving Through the Fly-Over States
- The Sunday Paper in 1984
- Conservative Temptations
- Barack Obama: Another Reason to Leave the Christian Left
- Gardens of Delight
- Border Patrols and Academic Freedom
- “Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world”
- Postcard from Switzerland
- Grade Avoidance Behavior: Colbert on Bush
- Remembering Azusa Street: Pentecostal Centenary
- Kuyper and DeVos: If this is “transformation”…
- Is there a box marked “other?”
- The EQ Test: How Evangelical Are You?
- Bush and Blair’s Secular Religion
- I’m Not Kidding
- Evangelicals and Climate: Update
- Evangelical Cliimate Initiative
- God is Love: Benedict XVI’s First Encyclical
- Canadian Election Today
- Christian Scholars, Public Intellectuals, and the Challenges of Finitude
- God-Branding?
- Fictioning a Life: Proust and Frey
- Model Public Intellectuals
- On the Lighter Side
- Merry Christmas, Texaco!
- Welcome Back, Mr. Hitchens?
- Give a Water Buffalo for Christmas
- Un-Natural Law? Alito on Non-Resident Aliens
- Political Time North of the Border
- Canadian University Rankings
- Evangelicals Out of the Box: JKAS on NPR
- World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals
- Our History of Violence
- Orwell, Foucault, and the State of Urban Public Schools
- Above All, Save the Merchandise
- A Generous Orthodoxy Think Tank
- Oh, well, if it’s biblical…
- Benedict XVI at World Youth Day
- Who Would Jesus Assassinate?
- Wanted: Tickets to NYC
- Africa, Poverty, and America’s Empty Promises: or Why Bono’s Wrong
- When Even “Realism” Starts to Look Good…
- How to Get Your Hands Dirty: On the Myth of Pacifist “Withdrawal”
- Jesus and Petroleum
- On Joel Osteen’s “Church”: Does Jesus Exist to Make us Happy?
- America Supports UK War Against Terror: By Sending the LAPD to London
- America for Export: Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson
- It Only Hurts When I Laugh: Why “Harper’s” Won’t Change America
- Jim Wallis’ Civil Religion Revisited: A Blog “Interview”
- Bush Redux: On How Not to Invite the President (or, Those Crazy Nazarenes!)
- A Commencement, A Wedding, and an Alternative Politics
- A Europe “To Come”–or Not?
- Galloway Redux
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- George Galloway: My (New) Hero
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- This Historian Should Pay More Attention to the Present
- Constantinianism of the Left?
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- Elections don’t entail Democracy
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