The Dark Wood

Canto I of Dante’s Inferno. by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).translated by Stephen Binns. Midway along the journey of our days__I found myself astray in a dark wood,__for lost was right direction in that maze.How hard a thing to speak of how it stood:__how dense the wood, how difficult the course.__The very thought renews the chill of… Read More The Dark Wood

Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” by N.T. Wright.

(Originally published in Journal of Anglican Studies, 2005, 3 (2), 181–96 originally titled Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” Forty Years On. N.T. Wright.) N.T. Wright. Honest to God, published in 1963, was one of the most public religious bestsellers of the twentieth century. Because it was written by an Anglican bishop it was especially controversial. Yet there are questions… Read More Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” by N.T. Wright.