2021 - Comment Magazine

Sep 22, 2021 Essay Embodiment

What Do We Owe the Dead?

On our responsibility to dead bodies.

Sep 16, 2021 Best Of Comment, Essay The Dynamics of Moral Agency

The Fading of Forgiveness

Tracing the disappearance of the thing we need most.

Sep 16, 2021 Book Review

How the Bible Means

When it comes to reading Scripture, we can (and should) know better.

Sep 16, 2021 Essay Embodiment

Ambivalent Embodiment

Lessons from pastors’ work in the pandemic.

Sep 9, 2021 Best Of Comment, Essay Beyond Ideologies

In Search of a Truly Good News Faith

What will it take to renew evangelicalism?

Sep 9, 2021 Book Review

Among the Tailings of Southern Segregation and Western Imperialism

A review of Voddie Baucham’s Fault Lines.

Sep 6, 2021 Newsletter, Snakes And Ladders

Books and Chairs and Years Gone By

Breaking Bread with the Dead will be out in paperback tomorrow! Please share the news with everyone in the entire world. *** Vermeer before: Vermeer after: See this lovely film of the restoration. *** The surprisingly complicated history of the Adirondack chair....

Sep 2, 2021 Essay

How Much Truth Is There in Beauty?

Would you eat an ugly cucumber? Millions of dollars ride on your answer to that question. So does a lot of theology. According to a recent study published in The Journal of Marketing, tons of produce and other food is tossed out every year in the United States as...

Sep 2, 2021 Essay Embodiment

African Stone, Orthodox Icons

Carving out a life of faith and meaning through participation in an ancient art.

Aug 30, 2021 Newsletter, Snakes And Ladders

Talk to the Hand

Via my friend Richard Gibson, a passage from Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall...

Year: 2021