by Lee Camp | May 15, 2015 | Opinion
Happiness is central to historical Christian faith and practice. But what does it look like and how should it be experienced? There are at least three common headings under which joy or happiness are often considered: 1. The experience of pleasures or delights,...
by Lee Camp | May 14, 2015 | Opinion
I have often enjoyed reading social critics, as diverse as Leo Tolstoy and Reinhold Niebuhr, and even one of the greatest of modern haters of Christians, Friedrich Nietzsche, whom I first started reading as an undergraduate many years ago. There is a discomfiting ring...
by Lee Camp | Jul 3, 2013 | Opinion
In my previous article, I suggested (and I have developed this at length in my book “Who Is My Enemy?”) that certain parallels exist between the Christian “Justifiable War Tradition” and the classical teachings in Islam regarding the...
by Lee Camp | Jul 2, 2013 | Opinion
Yet again, middle Tennessee has made national news for another embarrassing episode of apparent bigotry. In a meeting in which a representative of the local Muslim community asked her community for an extension of graciousness and indicated her own dismay at the...
by Lee Camp | Sep 21, 2005 | Opinion
In Steven Martin’s new film “Theologians Under Hitler,” we hear yet another series of gruesome tales in which a nation-state co-opted Christian faith for its purposes and left prominent Christians in the unenviable position of providing ideological...
