Doug Sikkema

Doug Sikkema Oct 1, 2026 Essay, New from Comment

Topics:

• Community
• Culture
• Literature

Explaining Wendell Berry

Who best holds the legacy of the great writer and farmer?

Doug Sikkema Sep 10, 2026 Essay The Paradoxes of Control

Topics:

• Ethics
• Literature
• Theology

Great Books and the Good Life

If we won’t control ourselves, who will?

Doug Sikkema Jun 5, 2025 Symposium Discernment

How to Discern

Perspectives on wise decision-making from our authors.

Doug Sikkema Aug 31, 2023 Essay Gender and Our Humanity

Topics:

• Cultural Renewal
• Gender
• Relationship

Sex in the Cities

Sacrifice, control, and abundance in the theatre of God’s glory.

Doug Sikkema Sep 16, 2021 Book Review

Topics:

• Books
• Christianity
• Culture
• Literature

How the Bible Means

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

Doug Sikkema Jun 4, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

Topics:

• Faith
• Family
• Remembering

This Body, Broken

Ordinary inheritances: a symposium.

Doug Sikkema Mar 1, 2019 Best of Comment, Essay The Books Issue

Topics:

• Books

Twelve Rules for the Bookish Life

(Of course, the bookish life needs no rules.)

Doug Sikkema Dec 3, 2018 Essay Minimalism

Minimalism for the Sake of the World

Minimalism Symposium: Stories of more and less

Doug Sikkema Mar 22, 2018 Essay

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Literature
• Public Theology

What Is Marilynne Robinson Hawking?

Calvinism in the Toronto Public Library.

Doug Sikkema Mar 1, 2018 Essay Is the University Worth Saving?

Topics:

• Education
• Public Life
• Social Architecture

A University for the Sake of the World

Christian higher education should be as distinctive as it is integrated.