Ross Douthat, on the urgent need of the militant atheist Jerry Coyne to insist that any Christian who does not take Genesis literally is a bad Christian who doesn’t understand his own religion: The ...

My Pandora shuffle is a mix of Gregorian chant, polyphony, and New-Agey chill, with a dash of what we plebeians call “classical music” thrown in for good measure. George Winston follows Palestrina, ...

Peter Suderman went to CPAC, and he can’t figure out what the Republicans are for, but he sure knows what they’re against. Excerpt: Like Christie, Sen. Ted Cruz also portrayed himself as an outsider ...

that faith, except as it is expressed in the poetry.1 However, if we focus on the faith together with the poetry as having the character of a negative theology, much that is enigmatic, without ceasing ...

It is always a good thing, surely, to examine the meanings of the words we speak, but when we speak about God critical reflection is downright imperative. Take, for instance, the adjectives “eternal” ...

and then God is not like the sound the kindling makes as it meets the matchhead, not like the buoy in the bay invisible at night, not like the gravity calling to the pear on the bough above the field, ...

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Saint Denis of Paris holding his own head (Notre-Dame de Paris) Source: Photo by Thesupermat, from Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 3.0 We conclude this series of comments on aesthetic cognitivism with ...

St. Denis of Paris holding his own head (Notre-Dame de Paris). Source: Photo by Thesupermat, from Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 3.0 We conclude this series of comments on aesthetic cognitivism with ...