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Down from Heaven
The verb “descend” (katabaino) is used ten times in Revelation, and the uses form a neat pattern: …
Cosmopolitan Christians
In her God Needs No Passport (89-90), Peggy Levitt reviews some of the recent discussions of cosmopolitanism –…
Ghosts of Walnut Street Bridge
On a sweltering summer afternoon in July 1998, my friend and Beeson colleague Robert Smith Jr. and…
SOS
Many Christians feel homesick for a day when they could be fully Christian in public. A rejection…
A Communist Crucifix
On Pope Francis’s recent visit to La Paz, Bolivia, he received an unusual—and many would say, offensive—gift.…
First Links—7.10.15
The Great Accumulation: A Review of The Ransom of the Soul, by Peter Brown Karl Shuve, Hedgehog…
Opportunities and Education after Obergefell
Very recently, I was at a conference where Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Gergis, two of the…
Pastor Needed
I recently received an email from a reader. She’s aware of the Marriage Pledge, the initiative formulated by…
By What Authority?
Apart from the Bible, I am reasonably certain that I have read H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and…
11 Rude Questions You Need to Stop Asking Semiamorous Couples
How did you meet? Well, it was sort of . . . there wasn’t one moment, exactly.…
First Links—7.9.15
UnclimbableEva Holland, SB Nation Augustine vs. Eminem: The Current Cultural EmpasseMark Judge, Acculturated Farewell to the House…
St. Clare, Seamstress
In Clothing the Clergy, Maureen C. Miller describes a 1980 visit by the the renowned textile conservator Mechtild…
I Pledge Allegiance to My Flag
Another day, another flag story. Recently, a pastor in North Carolina raised a Christian flag high upon…
First Links—7.8.15
Seahawks QB Russell Wilson Talks God, All the Media Hears Is “No Sex” Kate O’Hare, Patheos Rust-belt…
Theopolis Bible Courses
Theology students learn everything except the Bible. They learn historical theology and church history, systematics and dogmatics;…
