COVID-19 has affected matters great and small. Among the smaller matters has been the launch of my latest book, Can I Believe? Christianity for the Hesitant. This is my attempt to write a book for smart friends of yours who … Continued
Good Books
Why “Mere Christianity” Should Have Bombed
Sixty years ago, London publisher Geoffrey Bles first released a revision of four sets of radio talks by an Oxford literature don. The book was called Mere Christianity, and there was nothing “mere” about it. A somewhat disjointed set of C. … Continued
Parables & Propositions
Scholars of religion well into middle age, as I am, remember the excitement of the so-called narrative school of theology breaking over the landscape a few decades ago. Yale historian Hans Frei wrote about The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative as … Continued