I’m told that a piece that I wrote recently for The Christian Century has caused a little bit of a stir. Apparently some of the anti-Catholic bloggers have latched onto this as yet another example of evangelicals getting too cozy with Catholicism. My topic in that article is prayers to the saints, and I use […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education came up with an interesting creative experiment in response to the Virginia Tech tragedy. The editors asked eleven academic leaders to imagine what would be “the core of the message” they would give if asked to be the commencement speaker this year at Virginia Tech. The results, published in the May 4...
There is a campaign underway in Vienna, Austria to declare Hiasl, a 26-year-old male chimpanzee, a “person,” with various accompanying legal rights. Hiasl’s cause is being championed by a group of animal rights activists. They are not insisting that he be given, for example, the right to vote, but they do want him protected by some basic...
Just a few comments from South Korea, where I am in the middle of a busy speaking schedule.
On Monday I had a press conference, with about 15 journalists–several from major newspapers, as well as radio and TV religion reporters and writers for Christian publications. I did not know what to expect, nor did I feel...
I just finished a week of co-teaching a course for nine military chaplains. It was an “intensive”–which means all day, every day, for five days. I did something like this about two decades ago, at the Chaplain School at the Rhode Island Navy Base. My memories of that earlier time are very positive ones, and this past...
I hope Rebekah got an “A” on her paper. She is a student at a Christian college, taking a course on Christ-and-culture topics, and she wrote her paper on my views. In addition to reading a few of my books and entries on this blog, she wrote to ask me some questions. When I answered, I also...
There is a very strange ad in the current issue of Crisis, a conservative Catholic magazine. Billed as “An Appeal from Faithful Catholics to America’s Bishops,” it issues this plea: “Please Protect the Body and Blood of Christ from Pro-Abortion ‘Catholic’ Politicians.” I don’t pretend to be able to give advice to Catholic bishops about their sacramental...
I just took a moment to google “G.A. Studdert Kennedy” and discovered that his book of poems, The Unutterable Beauty, long out of print, is online at http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/dasc/TUB.HTM.
Kennedy (1883-1929), known best in his day as “Woodbine Willie,” was a British army chaplain during World War I, and wrote his poems to capture the speech patterns...
I have been putting the finishing touches on the Kuyper Lecture that I will be giving at Princeton Seminary this week. In the end, a good part of the editing process has meant cutting out some things in order to stay within the time limit for delivering the lecture. One of the sections I had to cut...
Let me say right off that I admire Krister Stendahl. He taught for many years at Harvard, and also served as the Lutheran bishop of Stockholm. He is a fine theologian-churchman and I have learned much from his writings. But when I spoke to the Southern California Ecumenical Council the other day, I began by quoting something...
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