Review: The Deconstruction of Christianity

Review: The Deconstruction of Christianity

There may be few terms traversing the contemporary religious landscape as confusing and polarising as “deconstruction.” When John Cooper, some years back, declared war on deconstruction, his comments were met by an overwhelming blend of support and derision. Many...
The evangelical pope

The evangelical pope

One of the struggles that emerged from the Protestant Reformation was the battle over authority. The Catholic Church vested—and continues to vest—equal authority in Scripture, tradition, and the magisterium (the teaching authority of the church). In Catholic thought,...
Review: The Ballot and the Bible

Review: The Ballot and the Bible

I recently had the opportunity to join the launch team for Kaitlyn Schiess’s latest book, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here. Reading as a non-American afforded me something of an outside...
More than Information

More than Information

In November 2022, OpenAI released the now wildly popular ChatGPT, which it styles as “an AI-powered language model … capable of generating human-like text based on context and past conversations.” The platform raised, and continues to raise, all sorts of ethical...
Black-Letter Christians

Black-Letter Christians

There is a growing tribe within the larger Christian world today of what we might call “red-letter Christians.” There is, in fact, a US-based organisation that calls itself by that name, but there are many others who may not formally affiliate with the organisation,...