April 2016
The Virtue of Tenderness: David Foster Wallace and the Practice of Love
In 2005 David Foster Wallace gave the commencement address at Kenyon College. The speech, which has acquired the title “This is Water,” still makes the rounds on the Internet regularly.[1] When I first heard it, blaring from ...
The Marriage Begins
The Book of Revelation does not contain a series of esoteric predictions about the end of the world. Rather, Revelation presents a world in which the final union of God and humanity is taking place in the presence of the slain Lamb. This...
Easter in the Busyness
Scripture readings: Psalm 126, Psalm 127, Colossians 1:12–20, Hebrews 7:24–27
As usual, it is in the Psalms, today, that the Word of God seems to draw near to our Easter experience here at Notre Dame. I am speaking, of cours...
Reading the Bible with the Church of Africa
Peter Casarella on whether non-Westerners understand the Bible better.
