Editorial Archives

Sep 1, 2013 Editorial We Believe in Institutions

Editorial: We Believe in Institutions

If you care about the welfare of your city and your neighbour, take ownership of the institutions around you.

Mar 1, 2013 Editorial Persuasion

Editorial: The Lost Art of Persuasion

We believe in persuasion as a mode of convicted charity—willing to meet one’s interlocutors where they are, while unapologetically hoping to change their mind.

Mar 1, 2012 Editorial Legacies

Editorial: Mixed Reviews

Looking graciously back on the giants before us.

Sep 1, 2011 Editorial The good society

Editorial: What we talk about when we talk about society

A good society has not only its institutions, but its loves in order.

Sep 1, 2010 Editorial Making the most of college (fifth annual)

Editorial: Barefoot Scholarship

I have my students read Calvin Seerveld, and I make them take off their shoes in class because, really: when we study God’s world—the tiny creatures under our microscopes, the vast galaxies within which our sun and planet whirl, the ways of men and women selling and buying in markets, the making of love and war and law and sausages—we are in the very presence of God.

Jun 1, 2010 Editorial Skillful living

Editorial: Seize the Quarterlife Crisis

An opportunity to press beyond who we are and into who made us.

Mar 1, 2010 Editorial The story

Editorial: Story

It is true, and it has consequences.

Sep 1, 2009 Editorial Making the most of college (fourth annual)

Editorial: A benediction

As my colleagues and I put together this fourth annual Making the Most of College issue of Comment, I was vividly aware that we are addressing it, for the first time, also to my own children, and their friends. And so I dedicate this issue to them, and begin it with a prayer for blessing over students in 2009-2010.

Jun 1, 2009 Editorial Responding