Christopher Ashley
CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
Pope’s earthly mark: the call for solidarity

As the old Pope died, people’s memories of him began to flood the world’s public square. What struck me most about those memories was a […]

April 14, 2005

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
Songs for God, sung only for ourselves?

Last Tuesday, Jars of Clay released a studio LP called “Redemption Songs.” It’s a minor landmark: The brightest star of the ’90s mainstreaming of Christian […]

March 30, 2005

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
Better to be Dennis than the royal bully

The scene: Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist peasant sits wallowing in the mud. When King Arthur rides up, Dennis mocks and denies his legitimacy and all its […]

March 2, 2005

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
On faith and fastballs, a slew of mixed signals

The first thing I knew about Hillary Clinton, back in the innocent early ’90s, was that she was a huge Cubs fan. She’d grown up […]

February 16, 2005

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
When a sponge cartoon meets a spiritual crusade

Every couple of years, something else that evangelical Christians and the LGBT community have in common shows up on the national radar. It’s already a […]

February 2, 2005

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
Learning to stop worrying (and love GESO)

When you grow up as a professor’s kid, you learn a thing or two about the dark underbelly of the American university before you ever […]

January 19, 2005

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
In Holland, holy war from the secular side

Theo Van Gogh, dubbed “the Dutch Michael Moore” for his provocative films and gleefully offensive newspaper columns, was riding his bicycle down a busy Amsterdam […]

December 2, 2004

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
American idolatry: the worship of a president

Why, exactly, do we care so much who’s our president? Yes, the president has a lot of power for good or ill. When someone told […]

November 10, 2004

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
For too many, staying at Yale is a full-time job

Financial aid changed my family’s life completely. When my grandfather came back from the war, the GI Bill let him go to college. His father […]

October 20, 2004

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
Both sides in abortion debate miss issue

What’s really at issue with abortion is neither choice nor life. Everyone decent approves of both shibboleths in principle. The real question is, when would […]

September 24, 2004

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY
‘Awesome God’ leads to linguistic bedfellows

If you were listening closely at this year’s Freshman Assembly, you may have heard three different people speaking at once during University Chaplain Jerry Streets’s […]

September 9, 2004