Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 March 2011 (Transfiguration Sunday, Year A) Exodus 24:12-18 • Psalm 2 or Psalm 99 •  Peter 1:16-21 • Matthew 17:1-9 This week’s gospel reading…

Jesus Radicals turn to Gregory of Nyssa for a different way to think about “social justice”

Some of our readers might have noticed some changes in the right-hand margin, most notably that we’re now prominently sporting a Christian Century logo.  Since I did not mention this…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 27 February 2011 (Eighth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A) Isaiah 49:8-16a •Psalm 131 •1 Corinthians 4:1-5 •Matthew 6:24-34 I did not start reading the Bible…

Stan Hauerwas on why Church is more truthful than “community” and other tidbits (HT Jeff Wright) Robert Woods recounts Russell Kirk’s defense of Giovanni Pico de Mirandola (how’s that for…

In our last podcast, we lingered a bit on the aesthetic quality of the King James Version’s archaic language. There was one point I forgot to mention, though: namely, the…

No, I have no plans to write anything at all about any MTV shows that may or may not still be on that network.  (Having been without cable for nearly…

General Introduction – Do suits make you smarter? – Pardon Michial’s head cold – A plug for the CWC The History of the King James Version – And the Bibles…

Rita Koganzon critiques the latest developmental category, “emerging adulthood.” Stanley Fish laments the apparent demise of the humanities in Obama’s State of the Union speech. James Ryerson ponders (and narrates)…

General Introduction – New segment: Michial Farmer’s world of women’s fashion – Thanks for not writing in – Why Nathan is the left-leaner amongst us – What’s on the blog?…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 13 February 2011 (Sixth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A) Deuteronomy 30:15-20 or Sirach 15:15-20 • Psalm 119:1-8 • 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 • Matthew 5:21-37 I…

Fred Sanders urges Christians to read Friedrich Nietzsche. In a Grubbsian moment, John Stackhouse makes a case for classical apologetics. Christianity Today interviews Billy Graham, who wishes he hadn’t been…

The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University By Louis Menand. 174 pp. W.W. Norton. $14.95 (paperback) I missed The Marketplace of Ideas when it was first…

We hope you enjoy our fight in the final segment! General Introduction – Nathan Gilmour does it all – Where’s Grubbsy this week? – Is there a difference between Iowa…