We Believe in Institutions

• Christopher Howell

Heaven

So come home along the dusty hickory-shaded ruts with scotch broom ablaze and orchards rising behind the sharp green of berry fields. Come on ahead if you can, with your fractures and played out luck, your shoes that have forgotten and had to be carried. Come with steel-colored hair and slivers of music half embedded […]

• James K.A. Smith

Editorial: We Believe in Institutions

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

Continuing The Conversation

Justice For All?

• James K.A. Smith

World View

A number of us involved with Comment are indebted to the inimitable Calvin Seerveld, longtime Senior Member in Philosophical Aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto and author of the classic Rainbows for the Fallen World. Seerveld introduced many of us to the daunting intricacies of Herman Dooyeweerd’s “modal” theory of creaturely reality—which is way cooler […]

• Anne Snyder

The Eternal Lens: The Press as a Humanizing Institution

One person reflects on her vocation in the news media—one of our "last shared maps" through a million islands of opinion.

• Chris Ganski

The Church Upward “and” Outward: Implications of the Ascension

Should our churches be pointed toward worship or mission?

• Emily Rose Gum

Recovering an Institutional Imagination

Institutions do not simply emerge or persist. You and I create and sustain them, and we imagine their future.

• James Davison Hunter,
• James K.A. Smith

The Backdrop of Reality

You need to look hard to see just how powerful institutions are, but when you do, you understand that we're all shaped by them. James Davison Hunter in conversation with James K.A. Smith.