One of my favorite parts from The Brothers Karamazov (so far) is when Father Zosima is talking to the peasants who have come from far and wide to seek his counsel and healing. Although I was aware that such practices existed, having read about them in my atheist years, it was a bit jarring...
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Continuing with the theme of things my high school friends have told me: Another friend of mine once said to me, “You know, Joe, I’m not very religious.” I remember being slightly surprised by his response – not because I thought he was particularly religious, but because I was not aware that “not very...
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I originally wasn’t planning on writing multiple posts about infant baptism, but Richard Beck’s kindly saying that he was eager to follow my thoughts on the matter made me reconsider. I don’t have anything terribly profound to say about infant baptism on top of what I’ve already said, but I would like to discuss...
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Today I’m going to give our readers something like a sneak peek of our next issue – coming out soon! – by discussing part of the contribution from Peter van Inwagen, John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and all-around philosophical celebrity (best known for sticking it to atheists, compatibilists, and everyday...
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Given all the recent brouhaha about baptism on The Fish Tank (for which I am largely responsible), a friend of mine expressed her concern with the lack of brouhaha about infant baptism – the mode of baptism practiced by the majority of Christians today. As I thought about infant baptism – in particular, as...
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Over the past few months I’ve been reading through the Psalms—just a few a night just before I go to bed. It had been a while since I’d last read them through, and they astonished me anew. It’s sometimes easy (for me, at least) to forget that history didn’t begin in 1989, when a...
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In the past few weeks, I’ve been blessed to have had numerous occasions to reflect on the purpose and mission of Christian thought in general and the Ichthus in particular, and I wanted to take some time to share my perspective and engage with the rest of the community. I think the issue of...
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