Category: Articles

The Luminous I

If you should pick up Marilynne Robinson’s Absence of Mind, I suggest that you begin at the end. This is not simply because Robinson writes

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For Calvinists Young and Old

James K.A. Smith forays into the now-popular epistolary genre with the compact and accessible Letters to a Young Calvinist. It is timely, as Smith notes

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Stuff My Uncle Told Me

More than a year ago already, my uncle Rodney died of cancer. He never had a family of his own, living with his parents until

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Seeing Abraham and Isaac

For many readers, the story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most troubling stories of the Bible. By this point in Abraham’s story,

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Windshield Wipers

Every child has a childhood, but some childhoods are not for children. Take the Windshield Wiper children for instance. Every day these boys, ages six

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Marilynne Robinson: Calvinian

In Part One of this essay I explored “Marilynne Robinson: Distinctive Calvinist.” Here the focus shifts to Marilynne Robinson as a Calvinian. Calvinians are those

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