Between Times

Between Times is an online journal based in the UK and continental Europe exploring the relevance of Christian faith in today’s world.

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🎙️ New episode out now!

Jasper Knecht sits down with Jonathan Chaplin, Honorary Fellow at Wesley House Cambridge, to explore his article "Secularism: Defining our Terms, Finding our Way"

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In 'Tradition, Traditionalism, and Temporal Depth', Marietta van der Tol argues that new traditionalism is shallower than it appears and asks what it truly means to be rooted in tradition.

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What distinguishes a deep-rootedness in tradition from a consumerist appropriation of it? Marietta van der Tol examines the new traditionalism and asks whether its hunger for meaning and historical depth is all it claims to be.

https://t.co/3ZOxOydjzY

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Introducing the Between Times Podcast. A new companion to the journal where we sit down with the authors behind our articles.

First episode live now, with Jared Michelson on his article exploring tolerance, on all podcast platforms and our website:
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Lucy Peppiatt's review of 'What is Free Speech?' by Fara Dabhoiwala is available to read now:

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What are the questions that we should be asking about free speech? Lucy Peppiatt reviews 'What is Free Speech?' by Fara Dabhoiwala, a book that traces its history, and considers how societies should approach it amid an abundance of information.

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Jared Michelson's article 'Tolerance: A Forgotten Virtue'

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Introducing the Between Times Podcast. A new companion to the journal where we sit down with the authors behind our articles.

First episode live now, with Jared Michelson on his article exploring tolerance, on all podcast platforms and our website:
https://t.co/lhkHGcnCLi

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In "The Treasures and the Troubles of Tradition", Gijsbert van den Brink argues that tradition is indispensable to the life of faith, and asks how we discern when to hold it fast and when the Spirit calls us to reinterpret it.

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Gijsbert van den Brink asks what role tradition plays in the life of faith and whether we can ever step outside it at all. He considers when the Spirit calls us to hold on, when to let go, and what that discernment might look like today.

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In “Do We Still Believe in the One Holy Catholic Church?”, Joshua Cockayne asks what is at stake for our ecclesiology when the language of “church” begins to shift, and considers its implications for what faithful mission might look like today.

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Joshua Cockayne asks what is at stake for our ecclesiology in the shifting language around 'church,' turning to the Nicene Creed to consider what it means to believe in the one holy catholic Church, and whether some ecclesial ambiguity might be a gift.

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In 'The Leaders We Deserve,' Tim Murray asks what our demands of political and church leaders reveal about us, and what it would actually look like to be led toward our most profound flourishing.

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Tim Murray highlights the parallel between political and church leaders, arguing that our expectations of both often follow our desire for comfort, clarity, and self-interest rather than our need need for truth, responsibility, and change.

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Can Christianity remain coherent without authoritative dogma? Andrew Torrance reviews James Dominic Rooney's Whoever Hears You Hears Me, a book that defends dogmatic authority as a necessary expression of Christian faith, not a threat to it.

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In his article 'The Politics of the Fifth Commandment,' Robert J. Joustra reflects on what it means to grapple with the past and argues that political and cultural maturity requires neither sentimentality nor erasure, but honour.

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Robert J. Joustra considers what the fifth commandment might teach us about tradition, inheritance, and public life, arguing for an approach to the past shaped neither by sentimentality nor erasure, but by honour.

Available to read now:
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In our latest article, Olli-Pekka Vainio reflects on the moral inheritance of Christian tradition in the modern West, asking what happens when only fragments remain and the call to imitate Christ is softened, displaced, or distorted.

https://t.co/kcHfooV8dW

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What makes a nation Christian? Does such a nation exist?

In the latest Between Times article, Olli-Pekka Vainio examines the fragmentation of Christian thought in the West and asks whether merely inheriting moral traditions creates Christian culture.

https://t.co/kcHfooV8dW