Kearney’s choice

Most contemporary philosophy stands above the fray—but not all of it

Winter 2008

Know it all (sidebar)

The 17th-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher was said to possess universal understanding. He didn’t, but he may have been the last man to come close

Spring 2007

This old stadium

The year Boston College almost punted on big-time football

Summer 2007

Resistance

The example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fall 2006

Substitute preacher

A lesson plan for when no priest is available

Spring 2006

The layman

Fall 2007

First year

Benedict’s papacy is not what some expected

Summer 2006

High-minded

Fifty years ago, U.S. Catholics were accused of failing their intellectual tradition. What’s changed?

Summer 2006

Can we talk?

A contrarian theologian takes on interfaith dialogue

Spring 2006

A reader’s notes: Revelation

Winter 2008

A reader’s notes

Free thinking

Fall 2007

Roman mythology

Not necessarily, says Are We Rome? author

Fall 2007

A reader’s notes

Tracers

Spring 2007

Lightning rod

Leaning neither left nor right, historian Tony Judt disturbs the peace

Spring 2007

A reader’s notes

Territorial imperatives

Winter 2007

Second emotions

The invention of love and other feelings

Winter 2007