Samuel Wells
Free and flawed
Sunday, March 13, 2011: Genesis 2:15-17
How should we live?
Doctrine of children
Ways of peace
There isn't a tidy way to write about forgiveness. It's the whole gospel, for sure....
Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology
Rowan's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury
The wise Anglican priest who instructed me in how to go about hearing confessions closed his lesson with some memorabl...
No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims About Jesus
Theologians and biblical scholars don’t usually trespass into popular religion....
The Fear of Beggars: Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics
Why is that man holding a sign, Daddy?” “He wants us to give him some money.” “Why does he want money, Daddy?” “B...
A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming
A theological engagement with the current global environmental crisis needs to do four things....
Raging with Compassion
When I talk with Christians about their struggles in faith, the question of evil invariably surfaces early on....
God's justice
Woody Allen famously pointed out that the problem is not that God doesn’t exist, but that he is an underachiever....
God in the hurricane: A confession of faith
The writers of great hymns were deeply aware of the relationship between God and the forces of nature....