Article: Thomas J. Farrell on His Most Memorable Year (REVIEW ESSAY) - In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah D Eloia (1943-1990).
In the ’60s, white evangelicals condemned Martin Luther King Jr. In the ’80s, we lauded a convenient, hagiographic version of his life. How should we remember him now?
Karl Barth in a Youtube Documentary Not about Him The great Swiss theologian Karl Barth has often been described as a modern “church father.” That is to
Church decline, like low tide, leaves the sun to bleach out the traditional religious depth of American culture. Wildcat digital media hawking competive worldviews that include missionary atheism has dried up the Christian Weltanschauung. What is the way forward for the gospel? Is it time to pray? Is it time to act? We're at low tide for America's churches. What next?