• Stanley Hauerwas and the university
• Richard Hays on the word of reconciliation
• Byron Smith shares a great quote from Karl Rahner on ‘Christian pessimism’
• John Pilger on ‘Julia Gillard, the new warlord of Oz’
• Walter Kasper on the regret of no shared communion
• Elliott Prasse-Freeman on Retaking power in Burma (Part I)
• Carol Howard Merritt on What Causes Pastors to Burnout?
• J.R. Daniel Kirk shares a parents prayer
• Kim Fabricius shares a wonderful sermon on baptism
• Sung-Sup Kim reviews David Gibson’s Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth
• Ben Myers is completely uninterested in ‘being a real man’
• ‘Speaking Christian: A Commencement Address for Eastern Mennonite Seminary’ by Stanley Hauerwas
• Finally, here’s some William Blake that I’m enjoying today:

‘The Clod and the Pebble’

‘Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.’

So sung a little clod of clay,
Trodden with the cattle’s feet,
But a pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:

‘Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another’s loss of ease,
And builds a hell in heaven’s despite.’