Paul’s closing doxology in Romans 11:33-36 is a rousing hymn celebrating the supremacy of God over both history and human beings. The capstone to his majestic,...
In Marilynne Robinson's unforgettable novel Gilead, the congregationalist (and unapologetically Calvinist/Barthian!) pastor John Ames pens this provocative refl...
*Note: I'll return next time to my series about "The Promises and Perils of Bilingual Christians"
Who needs to bother about dry, dusty theology?
“Many things c...
Mark 14:55-58—“Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none. For many bore false w...
I originally wasn't planning on writing multiple posts about infant baptism, but Richard Beck's kindly saying that he was eager to follow my thoughts on the m...
Given all the recent brouhaha about baptism on The Fish Tank (for which I am largely responsible), a friend of mine expressed her concern with the lack of bro...
“You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every g...
But it is true, they fear it more than death, beauty is feared more than death, more than they fear death.
- William Carlos Williams
Theology seeks the particul...
Everyone wants to be happy. How to be happy – well, that can become a divisive topic. The happiest moments of my life have come from romantic dates with my fian...
Recently I have been reading G.K. Chesterton’s excellent biography of St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas’s chief task in life was to theologically battle the variou...
