Articles & Addresses

• “Begotten, not made”: On the grammar of the Incarnation ABC Religion and Ethics. 01/11/21.
• “Mary, Mother of God”: How not to believe in the virgin birth ABC Religion & Ethics. 12/22/20.
• What we learned from Jean Vanier: On the politics of gentleness ABC Religion & Ethics. 05/09/19.
• Being with the wounded: Pastoral care within the life of the church ABC Religion & Ethics. 01/11/19.
• Learning How to Sin: A Sermon for the First Sunday of Lent ABC Religion & Ethics. 02/14/18.
• After the Reformation: How to be Neither Catholic Nor Protestant ABC Religion & Ethics. 11/01/17.
• In Defence of 'Our Respectable Culture': Trying to Make Sense of John Howard Yoder's Sexual Abuse ABC Religion and Ethics 10/18/17. " I have to revisit Yoder's life and work because I do not want what he has taught us about how we should and can live as Christians and how we think theologically to be lost."
  
• The Reformation is over. Protestants won. So why are we still here? Washington Post 10/27/17.
  
• Commentary: Trump’s faith manifests as patriotism and nationalism Portland Press Herald 01/27/17.
  
• The Weapon of Love: How Martin Luther King, Jr. Became Nonviolent ABC Religion and Ethics. 01/16/17.
  
• Countering the politics of resentment Church Times 11/4/16.
  
• Elected: A Sermon for the Day of the U.S. Presidential Election ABC Religion and Ethics. 11/08/16.
  
• What's Love Got to do with It? The Politics of the Cross ABC Religion and Ethics. 04/03/15.
  
• Can Democracy be Christian? Reflections on How (Not) to be a Political Theologian ABC Religion and Ethics. 06/24/14.
  
• The end of American Protestantism. Religion and Ethics 07/02/13.
  
• Hauerwas on just war - 3-part series (Religion and Ethics):
  • The Sacrifices of War (11/11/10)
    
  • War as the Sacrifice of the Refusal to Kill 11/12/10
    
  • The Sacrifice of Christ and the Sacrifices of War 11/14/10
• Disciplined Seeing: Forms of Christianity and Forms of Life Brian Goldstone and Stanley Hauerwas. South Atlantic Quarterly Fall 2010.
  
• Just how realistic is just war? ABC Religion and Ethics | 27 Oct 2010.
  
• How real is America's faith? The Guardian October 16, 2010. "The US is more secular than Britain – Americans have only a general belief in belief."
  
• A review of Defending Constantine Oct 13, 2010. (Review of Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom, by Peter J. Leithart). Christian Century October 13, 2010. [Subscription required]
  
• " Go With God": An open letter to young Christians on their way to college First Things October 2010.
  
• Reflections on learning how to speak Christian, by Stanley Hauerwas. Religion and Ethics ABC.net.au. August 16, 2010.
  
• America's God is Dying ABC Religion and Ethics. July 20, 2010.
  
• Speaking Christian: A Commencement Address for Eastern Mennonite Seminary Mennonite Quarterly Review Volume LXXXIIV July 2010 Number Three.
  
• The Surprise of Being a Christian Huffington Post June 3, 2010.
  
• War and the American Difference The Harvard Icthus November 23, 2009.
  
• Stanley Hauerwas on Reformation Sunday Covenant November 1, 2009.
  
• The Virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre First Things October 2007.
  
• Theology as Knowledge - A Symposium with James R. Stoner, Jr. - Stanley Hauerwas - Paul J. Griffiths - David B. Hart. First Things May 2006.
  
• John Paul II: Assessing His Legacy. Commonweal April 22, 2005 / Volume CXXXII, Number 8.
  
• The Naked Public Square Now A Symposium with Stanley Hauerwas - Mary Ann Glendon - Harvey Cox - Alan Mittleman - Andrew Murphy - Jean Bethke Elshtain - Ralph C. Wood - Allen D. Hertzke - David Novak - Wilfred M. McClay - Richard John Neuhaus. First Things November 2004.
  
• No, This War Would Not Be Moral. (a companion article to 'Yes, a War Would Be Moral' by Andrew Sullivan). Time Magazine, March 3, 2003.
  
• War, Peace & Jean Bethke Elshtain. Co-authored w/ Paul J. Griffiths. First Things 136 (October 2003): 41-47. Critique of Elshtain's Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (Basic, 2003).
  
• The Tonto Principle. Sojourners Magazine January-February 2002 (Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 30).
  
• In a Time of War: An Exchange First Things February 2002.
  
• Excerpts from The Hauerwas Reader.
  
• A Complex God, by Stanley Hauerwas. Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2001.

Sermons on September 11 - from The Ekklesia Project

• Out of Silence: A Response to First Things
  
• Sermons After Tuesday: A Postscript. The Ekklesia Project. 2001: Responses to September 11.
  
• September 11: A Pacifist Response, From remarks given at the University of Virginia, October 1, 2001. The Ekklesia Project.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Truth and Politics. Gifford Lectureship at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 2001.
  
• Confessions of a Mennonite Camp Follower. Mennonite Quarterly Review Volume LXXIV, No. 4. October 2000
  
• Karl Barth: Dogmatics in Outline. First Things 101 (March 2000): 46-47.
  
• Remembering John Howard Yoder. December 29, 1927-December 30, 1997. First Things 82 (April 1998): 15-16.
  
• Preaching As Though We Had Enemies. First Things 53 (May 1995).
  
• The Christian Reason for Being Progressive, by John B. Cobb, Jr. Theology Today Vol. 51, No. 4. January 1995.
  -- Knowing How to Go On When You Do Not Know Where You Are: A Response to John Cobb, Jr., by Stanley Hauerwas. Theology Today Vol. 51, No. 4. January 1995.
  -- Ally or Opponent? A Response to Stanley Hauerwas, by John B. Cobb, Jr. Theology Today Vol. 51, No. 4. January 1995.
  
• When The Politics of Jesus Makes a Difference. The Christian Century. October 13, l993, pp. 982-987.
  
• The Chief End of All Flesh, by Stanley Hauerwas & John Berkman. Theology Today Vol 49, No.2 - July 1992.
  
• Discipleship as a Craft, Church as a Disciplined Community. The Christian Century, October 1, 1991, pp. 881-884.
  
• Abortion, Theologically Understood. Address given June 14, 1990, at the l990 meeting of the North Carolina Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.
  
• The Importance of Being Catholic: A Protestant View First Things March 1990.
  
• The Testament of Friends. The Christian Century, February 28, 1990, pps. 213-216.
  
• Will the Real Sectarian Please Stand Up?. Theology Today, Vol. 44, No. 1. April 1987.
  
• The Gesture of a Truthful Story. Theology Today, Vol 42, No. 2 - July 1985.
  
• Eliminating People Who Suffer. Stauros Notebook: Reflections on the Mystery of Suffering Volume 02 Number 5 Sep/Oct, 1983.
  
• "The Holocaust and the Duty to Forgive" Encore (Reflections of CLAL - The National Jewish Center for Learning & Leadership). Oct. 3, 1980.
  -- Readers Respond to Hauerwas Nov. 28, 1980.
  -- "In Response: Forgiveness and Forgetting" Nov. 28, 1980.
  
• The Ethicist as Theologian. The Christian Century, April 23, 1975, pp. 408-412.
  
• Christian Care of the Retarded. Theology Today Vol 30, No. 2 - July 1973.