The devotions

At several removes

Pilgrimages that deepen into political exile

May 28 •

Father Abraham's lit crit

Finding alternative communities in Dickinson, Shakespeare & Capote

May 20 •

How to renew America's covenants

Follow Lincoln, who takes Paul's slant on three similar covenants

May 14 •

Theodicy and the Odyssey

God to Job: We're in a political fight of mythic proportions

Apr 22 •

James's version of the unforgiving debtor

Four meditations on James's law of liberty and his defense of the destitute

Mar 23 •

How redistribution became the Founders' orthodoxy

Reformation-era republicans took God's claim to all land seriously

Mar 13 •

Public life "for such a time as this"

Esther anticipates the risks and joys of ancient Christian secularity

Feb 12 •

At the cathedral: truth to power

An Italian philosopher challenges the church to become exiles again

Feb 5 •

America's strong, medieval Constitution

Its balance of powers is designed to enforce the rule of law

Jan 21 •

Democracy and emergency

Why Paul counters Rome's claims to "peace and safety"

Jan 16 •

Tribalism vs. covenantal kinship

A different world starts with a world of difference between the two

Jan 1 •

Make nature artificial again

Slow the rise of global temperatures — and global absolutism

Dec 12, 2024 •

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