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Visiting Leonard
Leonard was one of those pastoral visits pastors avoid. He was a guy who just got lost…
Ryan Anderson Drives People Crazy
Those of us who know Ryan Anderson have certain adjectives that come naturally to mind when we…
Difficult Questions on Unused Embryos
There is a really fascinating article in the New York Times today about the perhaps one million embryos…
First Links—6.17.15
“Everybody Worships”Alissa Wilkinson, Books and Culture The State of the American Mind: Anti-intellectualism in America more than…
Preaching Repentance
John (Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3) and Jesus (Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:15) come preaching repentance. Over time, though,…
Notes Toward a Pauline Theology of Music
One Corinthians 13-14 includes a cluster of musical metaphors. Paul compares the tongue-speaking of the loveless as…
Race in the American Church
It was not uncommon in the early 19th century for blacks and whites to worship together. As…
Denominationalism Is Secularization
“Denominational pluralism, on the American plan,” wrote Will Herberg, “means thoroughgoing secularization” (36). By “secularization,” Herberg meant…
Put Not Thy Trust in Presidential Candidates
The self-serving circus of political candidates and media coverage is on full display right now, and it’s not hard…
Ulysses and the God of Irony
Allow me to summarize the plot of a 644-page Modernist masterpiece, James Joyce’s Ulysses: Two guys meet…
First Links—6.16.15
The Complexity of Being Richard Nixon Evan Thomas, The Atlantic Why Is Obama Abandoning 70 Years of U.S.…
Denominationalism and the New World
Timothy L. Smith offers a vivid portrait of the “loneliness and danger,” as well as the fragmentation…
Social Sources of Denominationalism
H. Richard Niebuhr is altogether too much the sociologist. He displays the habit of peering past theological…
Update from Theopolis
Friends of the Theopolis Institute: Before he attended the Theopolis course on Holistic Mission during Easter term,…
Numerical Patterning in Revelation 16
After the third angel turns the rivers and springs to blood by pouring the passion of God…