Spring 2026
Volume 32, Number 2 · The current issue
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The Courage to Stand, Part 1: Bonhoeffer’s Journey and Ours
Bonhoeffer was not always bold. In autumn 1933 he fled to London, weary and anxious, and Karl Barth answered with a sharp letter. Richard Burnett asks what that exchange teaches about finding courage to stand.
By Richard BurnettSpring 202624 min readChurch and Culture
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“We don’t know Jesus Christ apart from the Scriptures, and we don’t know the Scriptures apart from Jesus Christ.”
Recent Dispatches
EvangelismRaymond Hylton
Why does the word evangelism make so many mainline Christians anxious? Raymond Hylton turns to the Great Commission in Galilee, arguing that witness rests on Christ’s authority, not on our management of…
The Good Deposit of the GospelDouglas G. Pratt
Reflecting on Paul’s final letter, Douglas Pratt traces the word “entrust” in 2 Timothy and asks whether the church is investing in the next generation of pastors and leaders to whom the…
Why Study Theology?Jonathan Sundermeier
What is doctrine for? Seminarian Jonathan Sundermeier turns to Calvin’s Institutes to argue that theology’s highest end is piety: reverent love of God that is formed by knowing him and issues in…
HolinessSara Jane Nixon
St. Christina the Astonishing tried to flee the stench of sinners; Isaiah collapsed in terror before the Holy One. Sara Jane Nixon argues that the content of God’s holiness is love, a…
OrthodoxyRichard Burnett
Right belief or right worship? Doctrine or doxology? Drawing on Chesterton, Athanasius, and Calvin, Richard Burnett presents orthodoxy as a costly, moving equilibrium, never stuffy and never still, that has carried the…
PerseveranceDouglas F. Fletcher
Spiritual autobiographies remind us how the Spirit sustains faith through the long road. Drawing on Schweitzer, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Douglas F. Fletcher names ten weapons against…
This season, years ago
What the journal was printing at this time of year, ten, twenty and thirty years back.
Ten years ago Spring 2016
John Calvin on the Unity and Truthfulness of the ChurchJames C. Goodloe
Twenty years ago Issue 2, 2006
“The Trinity: God’s Love Overflowing” A CritiqueViola Larson
Thirty years ago Issue 3, 1996
Bible Study of the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8Sue Cyre
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