Two Views of Mortality
Sometimes death strikes down the living abruptly through a heart attack, a suicide, a car accident, a drowning. Loved ones can be left feeling...
Is Authentic Christian Community Even Possible?
Where does authentic Christian community come from, what holds it together, and what keeps it going?
The Feast of Many Memories
If you keep an eye on the market for home improvement supplies, you are seeing some healthy indications. Even the sales of tools are...
Calvin Meets Voltaire – An Interview with Jennifer Powell McNutt
Editor’s note: Since we are not the first Christians or congregational leaders in the Reformed tradition to swim against strong cultural and intellectual currents,...
A Theology of the Ordinary
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life––your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life––and place it...
Is Theology Practical?
This address was delivered at Theology Matters’ first conference on Hilton Head Island, Feb. 19, 2020. I made an off-hand comment to Richard Burnett one...
On Reconciliation – Honoring the Work of Jesus Christ
Christ Jesus . . . has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. Eph. 2:...
A Provocative Confession: Jesus as the Truth
The fact is confessing Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life has always been provocative. It’s always been contested. It’s...
Clothes Make the Man (or the Woman)?
Do we still believe in the notion of the “preaching office” or the “pastoral office”? Or have we joined the ranks of so much American “free church” congregationalism that replaces the notion of “office” with that of mere “function”?
Can the Lord’s Supper Be “Online”?
The notion of “online Communion” has some real problems to it.