Paul J. Griffiths

"Ceasing to attend to the inner theater and looking instead at the Christian story of death would place Christians where they belong: in the open before their God."

"Prayers too can be agitprop, and the remedy for that is always the same: lament for the damage that our answered prayers will do."

“Happily, Helsinki is not all geopolitical excitement. It is also lumberingly omnipresent trams, for which I quickly come to feel something close to love.”

Jonathan Lear’s new book understands mourning as evidence of human well-being. But it overlooks the importance of the agonizing lament.

Our weapons in Ukraine kill combatants and noncombatants alike, extending a bloody conflict. Is it worth it?