by Kevin Bauder | Feb 4, 2017 | Art and Literature, Culture, Philosophy, Technology
Should the novel be redefined to include serial cable television? Erik P. Hoel addresses the problem of fiction in an age of screens. His essay interacts with the work of several media critics, including David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. This is an important...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 4, 2017 | About Us, Conferences, Ecclesiology, In the Nick of Time, Race, Theology
Jeff Straub introduces Emmanuel Malone, who will deliver Central Seminary’s Charles MacDonald Lectures. His topic is “Race and the Church.”
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 3, 2017 | Catholicism, Evangelicalism
Peter Leithart, a key advocate of the Federal Vision, looks at the joint Lutheran-Catholic statement on the Eucharist. In keeping with his recent direction, he finds hope for increasing rapprochement between Catholics and Protestants. It often thought that in...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 3, 2017 | Conservatism, Social Issues
Writing for the Imaginative Conservative, Dwight Longenecker suggests that in a world turned upside down, conservatives are now the subversives. It used to be that to act against these conservative values was to paint oneself as a subversive. The beatnik, the hippie,...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 3, 2017 | Ethics
John Schwenkler argues that torture is anti-Christian whether it works or not. Read the essay at First Things. It is a central principle of the Christian ethic that one must not do evil that good may come. That ethic does not require us to ignore the consequences of...
