Can Christians transform culture?
Jamie Smith thinks it might be the other way around.
St. Augustine
Letting Augustine be Augustine
How to capture the urgency of Confessions? New translations by Sarah Ruden and Peter Constantine offer very different approaches.
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart
Greek and English do not work the same way. So what does it mean to create a literal translation?
What does it look like to embody the peace of the city of God?
Anesthesiologist Ronald W. Dworkin reminds me that going to the doctor isn’t the same as sharing a cocktail with a friend.
I’ve never read Augustine’s City of God cover to cover. So I joined a Twitter experiment to help me get through it.
Ambivalent motherhood
The physical reality of her son, the very tangible way that he is a part of her, will not go away. He is with her everywhere she goes.
The mysteries of young Augustine
Confessions is not primarily about Augustine at all; it is about God’s activity in the particularity of Augustine’s life.
Faith’s ghastly legacy
Christians fail to realize that the responsibility for rebellion against the faith lies invariably at their own door.
"Narcissists can be inspiring. Whether they are creative or destructive depends on their philosophy."