April 5, 2010

A reflection on the meaning of Easter

Bertrand Russell enters the pearly gates.

The failure of my first pastoral challenge still weighs on me.

Worthy of Recognition Re “Historian’s Progress” (Current Comment, 3/29): I am a long-time reader and admirer of Tony Judt’s work. How wonderful of America to recognize his most recent work in The New York Review of Books. I do not know which is more worthwhile, his essay &ldq

Despite our best efforts as believers, it is often hard to see the glory for the gloom.

Diarmaid MacCulloch's 'Christianity' begins a millennium before the birth of Christ.

Philip Jenkins' new book challenges common wisdom about how lofty Christian doctrine was formulated amid human chaos.