As the Roman Republic was facing its death throes and he himself was only months away from ignominious death, the legendary Roman politician and orator Cicero wrote what would become one of his most influential essays since antiquity: On Friendship....
Most of my students have never heard of Augustine of Hippo. Very few of them have read a 5th-century text. So I wasn’t sure what to expect when we discussed parts of Augustine’s Confessions in my Created and Called for Community...
Yesterday was our first day of discussion in Created and Called for Community (CCC). The students read Stanley Hauerwas‘s 2010 First Things essay “Go With God: An Open Letter to Young Christians on Their Way to College.” After some conversation about...
Thomas J. Balcerski is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University. This is interview is based on his new book Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (Oxford University Press, 2019). JF: What led you...
I just learned that the theme of the recent issue of the Journal of Social History is “Friendship in Early America.” Here is the table of contents: Janet Moore Lindman, “Histories of Friendship in Early America: An Introduction” Gregory Smithers, “‘Our Hands...
Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg disagreed on just about everything, but they were very good friends. They would spend New Year’s Eve together. They took trips together. From all reports they really enjoyed one another’s company. I am guessing...
Cassandra Good is the Associate Editor of the Papers of James Monroe at the University of Mary Washington. This interview is based on her new book, Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic (Oxford University Press, February...
I wrote this piece about five years ago. I just remembered it today and thought I would post it again for those who missed it the first time. Presbyterians in Love Can Presbyterians fall in love? Okay, everyone falls in...
This is the title of a post by Sam Lamerson over at Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog. Lamerson discusses this in the context of divinity school teaching, but I would like to broaden its scope a bit to include the...
