A Balancing Act

You’re very right to observe that the Jewish and Christian traditions proscribe homosexual acts, as do the other major religions, including Islam, Hinduism (at least for the “twice-born”), Buddhism, and Taoism. It’s important of course to...

Way to What End?

Thank you for your comment on the newly posted lecture “Disagreeing to Agree”, my contribution to the recent Common Word symposium at the University of South Carolina (currently first in the queue here). With your usual nose for controversy, you’ve...

New Lecture Posted

Thanks—to several inquirers and correspondents—for your patience. End of term academic responsibilities and numerous other commitments over the last few weeks resulted in a much longer delay than I had expected in revising and posting the lecture I...

Holy Monotony

During the course of your daily sessions of prayer, you say, the Name of Allāh has occasionally “interposed” itself while you were repeating the Jesus Prayer, and you want to know what I think. It goes without saying, of course, that there’s nothing...

The Divine Sun

A comment appeared a few days ago here on Anamn?sis. Written by someone operating under the alias “Thurbolt Smagg”—my first thought, I confess, was that one of the diabolical legion in C. S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters had begun reading this...

Metaphysical Theology

I’m not surprised you had “some reservations” regarding my comments at the Common Word conference last week. You will understand, of course, that in the concluding section of the paper I was deliberately pushing past the dogmatic limits of the...