Category: Family
Tolkien, Marriage, Liberalism
A number of questions have come up in response to the piece on the main site concerning the Respect for Marriage Act and what I guess one might call the political theology of Tolkien, who I built the essay around....
Opportunities for Renewal After the Sexual Revolution
Matt Yglesias has an astute piece noting some reasons for concern amongst progressives re: the long string of success their movement has enjoyed with regards to LGBT+ issues: We had a roughly 10-year period of political routs (starting with the...
Deconstructing in the Ruins
I don’t know a way to start this without some level of personal detail, but I’ll try to be brief: I grew up in a church somewhere right of John MacArthur which, these days, things MacArthur is a progressive. If you...
Children, Culture Wars, and Christian Societies
All of the following things can be true:
Hauerwas on the Politics of Sex
Hauerwas from “Sex in Public” (in which he gives the theological ethics version of Berry’s “Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community”):
I Want to be a Burden
This excerpt from Gilbert Meilaender is gold: