BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The common reaction of most of us to pictures of Americans killed and defiled in a foreign land is a call for revenge. But we have a profile today of a Christian theologian who ...
Arguing that Christians are called to imitate God's generosity, Volf, a theology professor at Yale Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, explores what that looks like in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a question that has vexed the human race throughout time: How can you live a life filled with meaning? Yale University ...
The deep friendship between the theologian and poet Christian Wiman is built around mutual respect and a willingness to tackle life’s hardest questions. “My office or a big room?” Miroslav Volf asked.
If you know nothing else about religion or spirituality, it is essential you learn this: that there is in the heart of every human being a beast lying dormant. This beast is, for the most part, ...
Sarah Williams Volf, dedicated daughter, wife, mother and friend, passed away on Thursday, April 6, 2017, with her husband by her side. The heartfelt tributes from friends all over the world started ...
When I talked to Yale theologian Miroslav Volf last summer, he was being considered as possible dean of Harvard Divinity School. He had told Harvard’s president Lawrence Summers quite clearly that if ...
“A misunderstanding of how our faith should function can provide fertile ground both for the lure of temptation and the power of systems.” —Miroslav Volf 1) Dual role leaders are subject to heightened ...
In a conversation on “Character, Flourishing, and the Good Life” on Feb. 22, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Yale theologian Miroslav Volf agreed on at least one major point: In today’s ...
(RNS) As Christians watch 2016 burn, we must remember that fire both consumes and refines. That is, it forces us to return to what makes us who we are. For Christians, this means asking once again how ...
Miroslav Volf's faith in Christianity and allegiance to Jesus' message has landed him in the public square and made him into a political pluralist, too. These affinities are behind his newest book, A ...