“The time is coming fast when the whole world will gather here.” Sathya Sai Baba
Thinking more deeply about how we can inhabit the public sphere with others.
When people’s personal friendship networks become more religiously diverse, that seems to make them more accepting of other faiths, but it also turns out that if you add friends within a congregation, more church friends, you actually become more civically engaged.
What is a Catholic philosopher?
Our moral educations should happen at dinner tables, in classrooms, on football fields, in synagogues and churches.
Uncomfortable though it might be to admit, Heidegger’s thinking is part of the Jewish textual tradition.
Our political moment demands to see who we are—a beautiful and terrifying ordeal.
What emerges in the essays in this issue is actually not one secularism, but rather a range of secularisms—French, American, Indian, and others— that can be compared, evaluated, and improved upon.
While structures of power may change quickly, the building of a new social order is a longer and more precarious process.
Food is a strong proof of our animality; it is equally strong evidence of how we transcend it.
How does one deal with the “trees and forests” complexity of a career like David Tracy’s?
Baring introduces a community of thinkers whose contributions have been obscured.
A grotesque and caricatured version of Simone Weil undermines an otherwise good book.
Writing a book about Thomas Jefferson means entering a very crowded field.
Like the “radical orthodoxy” associated with John Milbank, Stanley Hauerwas, and an array of other British and American theologians, Hart’s project of rejuvenation has been no narrowly theological or academic exercise.
Meaningful social change requires the kind of social reconciliation that can only emerge through aggregated instances of both forgiveness and repentance.
For the editors of The Economist, euthanasia is "an idea whose time has come."
Francis’s integral ecology challenges some tendencies on both the right and the left.
Bernie Sanders at Liberty University is more than a momentary truce in the culture war.
With our colleagues, and with our students, we have the space not only to express disagreement in more than tweets and sound bites, but also to probe the reasons underlying our disagreement.
The question for Silence is not whether another world exists but how such a recognition should affect our lives here.
In France, wearing a COVID-19 mask will mean a real revolution in norms governing behavior in its public space.