D. Brent Laytham is a professor of theology and dean of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Articles by D. Brent Laytham
Books
A Faith Not Worth Fighting For
Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence
Edited by Tripp York and Justin Bronson Barringer
Making Peace with the Land
God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation
by Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba
Speaking of Dying
Recovering the Church’s Voice in the Face of Death
by Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith and Joy V. Goldsmith
The Limits of Hospitality
by Jessica Wrobleski
If These Walls Could Talk
Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice
by Maureen O’Connell
Option for the Poor and for the Earth
Catholic Social Teaching
by Donal Dorr
Compassionate Justice
An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice
by Christopher D. Marshall
Ethics in the Presence of Christ
by Christopher R. J. Holmes
Shows about Nothing
Nihilism in Popular Culture
by Thomas S. Hibbs
The Morally Divided Body
Ethical Disagreement and the Disunity of the Church
A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence, edited by Tripp York and Justin Bronson Barringer. Many people assume that Christian pacifists lack good or even coherent answers to hard questions: Shouldn’t you protect the innocent? Wouldn’t you fight for your loved ones? What about war in the Old Testament?
Books
Alone Together
Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
By Sherry Turkle
The Borders of Baptism
Identities, Allegiances, and the Church
By Michael Budde
A Watered Garden
Christian Worship and Earth's Ecology
By Benjamin Stewart
War and the American Difference
Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity
By Stanley Hauerwas
The Christian Art of Dying
Learning from Jesus
By Allen Verhey
Making a Welcome
Christian Life and the Practice of Hospitality
By Maria Poggi Johnson
Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics
By Joel B. Green, Jacqueline E. Lapsley, Rebekah Miles and Allen Verhey
The Betrayal of Charity
The Sins that Sabotage Divine Love
By Matthew Levering
The Devil Wears Nada
Satan Exposed!
By Tripp York
A Key to Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle (Basic Books, 384 pp., $28.95). Amidst the deluge of propaganda, technophilia and idolatry that masquerades as objective assessment of digital culture, Turkle offers us galoshes and a sump pump.
Books
Christian Ethics
A Very Short Introduction
By D. Stephen Long
Good Work
Christian Ethics in the Workplace
By Esther D. Reed
Defending Constantine
The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom
By Peter J. Leithart
Welcoming Justice
God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community
By Charles Marsh and John Perkins
Good News for Anxious Christians
10 Practical Things You Don’t Have to Do
By Phillip Cary
Shopping
By Michelle A. Gonzalez
God and Gadgets
Following Jesus in a Technological Age
By Brad J. Kallenberg
Belonging
A Culture of Place
By bell hooks
Is God Still at the Bedside?
The Medical, Ethical, and Pastoral Issues of Death and Dying
Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, by D. Stephen Long. Beginning with the challenge pressed by atheist Christopher Hitchens and engaging Christianity's historic failures, Long brings elegant clarity to the project of Christian ethics.
We
typically think of name-calling as trash talk, violent speech, all harm and no
good. Often it is. In the aftermath of the midterm elections, I'm well past my
quota of derogation and defamation. But not all name-calling is violence.
