American Political Witchcraft

Apparently, the politics of fear is no longer a strong enough brew for my country. From sea to shining seas, spells are now being spun over the presidential primaries and the up-coming 2012 presidential race that resemble a form of political witchcraft. The hard-hitting divisive rhetoric of recent years that reflected legitimate fundamental differences between […]

Elaine Storkey (conversation)

Charles Strohmer talks about public communication and gender with the widely listened-to British Christian Elaine Storkey, author and BBC broadcaster on current affairs. Read the interview here

John Peck (conversation)

Charles Strohmer talks with John Peck, British theologian and philosopher, about how dramatically his life – as a Christian – changed with the discovery that God’s wisdom was for all of life. Read the interview here

Wisdom Tradition – See with New Eyes

To help those who may be new to this way of thinking, I am pleased to say that there is now a fairly comprehensive introduction to the historic wisdom tradition up on the site as a new page, and you may start some discussion about it here. Even if you are not new to this, I think you may find some surprises.

The wisdom tradition offers us an alternative way of reasoning about life, and that is what I have tried to show how in this introductory article, which is titled “The Historic Wisdom Tradition and Its Literature: A Summary Review in Two Parts.”

Images of Wisdom in Cairo

One of the prominent features of wisdom is that, to use an image from the book of Proverbs, she cries to be heard in the streets. In other words, Lady Wisdom is not some disinterested spectator. You will find her in the public square, resolutely engaged. And her aim? It is to be a reasonable […]

God of All Things?

Speaking at a Christian Men’s Breakfast fellowship in October, I suggested that the deeper issue surrounding the widespread political disillusionment in America today is a religious issue. Across the country, we have been experiencing the inadequacy of an emerging new idolatry: the politicization of all of American life. For several decades, I said, there’s been […]

Taliban Neighbors

How do you serve as a Christian in a hostile region, where violence has become a norm, where the news for you is rarely encouraging, where you’re held down economically, socially, and politically, and where traveling just from one place to another may make you the subject of a kidnapping? Bishop Rumalshah of the Church of Pakistan has had to find a way.

A slightly shorter version of this essay was published in The Christian Century, Jan. 13, 2009.

Christopher Hitchens

Isn’t the outspoken atheist and essayist Christopher Hitchens also a man of faith?