Racial Murder: American Memory, American Tragedy
In light of recent events, we are republishing this piece written after the Charleston shooting on June 17, 2015. Samuel Loncar on America,
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Essays
Establishing Truth That’s Trusted in the Gospels and Today
Ramsay MacMullen A front-page feature of the NY Times Science section recently (March 3, 2020) explained how social animals, from primates down through
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James Wood and The Visionless Age
Samuel Liu on James Wood’s Serious Noticing Perhaps there is no essay by James Wood more thrilling than his piece on metaphor in
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Blood Libel: Why is Facebook Permitting Antisemitism?
Paul Franks on Facebook’s Refusal to Remove Hate Speech On 24th March 2020, the Italian artist Giovanni Gasparro posted pictures on Facebook of
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How The Working Class Became Children: The Politics of Kindness in A Victorian Novel
Karen Swallow Prior on Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty March 30 marks the 200th birthday of Anna Sewell, whose only published work, Black Beauty,
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Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part Two
This conversation was held at Niebuhr Hall, and kindly co-sponsored by Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute for Sacred Music. We invite
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The Unity Death Yields: Assassination Through A Theologian’s Eyes
Paul Griffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective In a time of intractable political division in America, it’s instructive
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Irony in the Age of Trump
Samuel Loncar on Irony as a Lost Virtue in Need of Recovery Irony traces the curve of human existence striving to be a
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Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Israel: A Plea for Consistency
Gary A. Rendsburg on Israel I am a strong supporter of Israel and a great admirer of its manifold accomplishments in its 71
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Death at the Border: A Theologian’s Perspective on Migration
Paul Giffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective This short essay, the first of an occasional series for publication
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