Tradition Doesn’t Solve the Problem of Christian Unity
Philip Schaff on how appeals to tradition, contra the supposedly divisive and schismatic principle of sola scriptura, doesn’t actually do what its proponents think it does:
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”):
Religion Makes the Music Sweeter
Thomas Watson on Christians and cheerfulness:
I Want to be a Burden
This excerpt from Gilbert Meilaender is gold:
Commonplace Books
During the early modern era, it was typical that young students would compile what was called a commonplaces book.