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"But to preach is the most difficult of all arts and is essentially the art that Socrates praised, the art of being able to converse. It goes without saying that the need is not for someone in the congregation to provide an answer or that it would be of help continually to introduce a respondent.

-- History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. From the playfield the boys raised a shout. A whirring whistle: goal. What if that nightmare gave you a back kick? -- The ways of the Creator are not our ways, Mr Deasy said. All history moves towards one great goal,

This is the first post in a series about the roles certain kinds of academics play in Christian life and community in the present United States. I encourage you to share and respond to these posts to help create a kind of conversation I feel is not taking place within and among religious communities. Constructive criticism is always

(This was written last night, just before midnight.) There is a little time tonight before Kierkegaard's birthday passes for another year. I hoped to finish The Present Age on the train home, but I left my battered copy on my office desk. I'm surprised how upset I was about it, especially since I had dragged

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8_NggH3O90oDestroying the balance I kept.