Family
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Mobile Technology: A Complication in the Human Condition
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age by sherry turklepenguin, 448 pages, $27.95 On…
Baylor at the Crossroads
I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in…
Divorce and Communion
There were only two occasions in my life as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in…
What Comes After the Synod
Whatever Pope Francis does in the wake of the Synod on the Family, we have a new…
Roland on Dreams
It was, I believe, the third time that the small, hard, moist rubber ball struck my forehead…
When Teachers Don’t Matter
It is only 2 p.m. on a mild afternoon in February, but the hallways are quiet and…
The Saints and All of Us
Written from Rome: Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod-2015, something genuinely new in the life…
Evangelicals and Animals
Ribs are getting harder to eat. I was gnawing on some nice tender bones in Memphis recently,…
A Family of Saints
If there was one serene moment amidst all the ecclesiastical discord at the recent Synod in Rome,…
Enlightenment Thought and Paying for Lightbulbs
Someone wrote a letter recently to the editor of a denominational magazine, proposing that since the staff…
Sex and Tradition
In a few carefully argued pages in his recently translated The Crisis of Modernity, the Italian Catholic philosopher…
School Shootings and the Book of Job
Last Thursday morning, I was teaching a freshman honors seminar in Newberg, Oregon. We were discussing Genesis…
Issues Beneath Issues at Synod 2015
Written from Rome: Since Pope Francis announced that two Synods would examine the contemporary crisis of marriage…
The Moral Universe of Hannibal
A woman lovingly plucks a dead pheasant. A man places a human arm on a cutting board…
The Mystery of Eternal Love
One of the most common charges leveled against Christians in the early church was that they were…
