by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 6, 2019 | Opinion
Everything is of one piece. Whenever we don’t take that seriously, we pay a price. The renowned theologian, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, gives an example of this. Beauty, he submits, is not some little “extra” that we can value or denigrate according to personal taste and...
by Roger Olson | Aug 22, 2018 | Opinion
What are the greatest dangers to Christianity today? Notice that I am not asking, “What are the greatest dangers to Christians?” I am assuming the reality of something I am here calling “Christianity,” which is, to me, anyway, more than the aggregate of people who...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 14, 2018 | Opinion
Does cooperation create a sense of solidarity and moral obligation toward one’s partners? A recent World Bank working paper suggests that it does. The paper shares findings from an experiment in which participants were organized into groups of three. Some sets of...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and W. Mark Koenig | Aug 20, 2015 | Opinion
A mid-August game at Citi Field between the Pirates and the Mets involved good friends and good baseball. It also involved, in our section, a racial moment. Two young men brought a flag of the Republic of Korea to the game, standing quietly to display the flag each...
by Bob Cornwall | Apr 24, 2012 | Opinion
We live in an increasingly diverse society, which has led to what we might call a nativist backlash. “America for Americans,” you might say, but who is an American? Nativism isn’t new, as we can see by looking back in history. In the 19th century, it...
