Sight-Seeing: Shame, grace and #STOPtheSTEAL

KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says the “stories we traffic in” play an important role in shaping how we see ourselves…
THE INTERVIEW: JAMES KA SMITH, US THEOLOGIAN, ON ST AUGUSTINE

ROXANNE STONE, writing for Religion News Service, speaks with theologian James KA Smith about his latest book, ‘On the Road With Saint Augustine’, and the relevance of the 4th century bishop’s voice in today’s world…
BOOKS: FAITH IN A SECULAR AGE

DARREN CRONSHAW reads James KA Smith’s “guidebook” to Charles Taylor’s earlier work, ‘A Secular Age’…
US Christian geneticist Francis Collins ponders promise, peril of biotechnology

RNS To geneticist Francis Collins, a person’s DNA can be compared to the beauty of a Gothic cathedral’s rose window. “I think that is a visual way to point out the beauty of what it is that God has given us as a creation,” Collins said as he stood below a screen at the National […]