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Being Righteous, Being Saved
“To be ‘righteous,” writes John Barclay (Paul & the Gift), “does not mean to be ‘saved.’” Rather,…
Migrants, Elites, and the Church
Peggy Noonan argues in a recent column that “Rules on immigration and refugees are made by safe people. These…
Gospel of the Foreskin
In his recent Paul & the Gift, John Barclay arrestingly translates the Greek phrase to euaggelion tes akrobustias…
Conformed to the Gift
At the heart of John Barclay’s treatment of Paul & the Gift is the claim that Paul “perfects”…
First Links — 9.16.15
The Most Invisible Christians Kelley Vlahos, American Conservative Why Every Drag Queen Needs a Church David Mills, Aleteia…
Chiasm in Malachi 1
In a recent sermon, Pastor Jimmy Gill of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, pointed to the chiastic structure…
Eucharist, Evangelical and Catholic
Theodore Beza’s opening speech at the Colloquy of Poissy was a model of irenic Protestantism (Nugent, Ecumenism is…
Phone Booth
Way out in the Mojave desert is a phone booth. Some years ago, a resident of LA…
Conformist Subversives
To secular analysts, “Progressive Pentecostals” seem naively apolitical. In their study of Global Pentecostalism, Donald Miller and Tetsunao…
First Links — 9.15.15
The Rise of Victimhood Culture Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic Art Across the Early Abrahamic Religions Robert Gregg, OUPblog There…
Deuteronomic Penalties
Deuteronomy 25 begins like a law-and-order text. Judges are to condemn the wicked and justify the innocent.…
Irenicism in the Reformation
“Perhaps irenicism is the finest synthesis of Renaissance and Reformation,” writes Donald Nugent in his 1974 monograph…
Shepherding by Faith
It doesn’t take long for a pastor to discover the discrepancy between need and resources in his…
Exit and Voice
What do people do when social institutions go wrong? Albert Hirschman (Exit, Voice, and Loyalty) argues that…
The Flock vs. the Shepherd
A poll taken of Long Island Catholics and reported in Newsday has a finding that has become customary…
