54 articles from 34 issues, 1998 to 2026 · Page 5 of 5
Is the church’s long quarrel over ordination and doctrine a sign that division is the only way forward? Gary Neal Hansen looks at the Donatist and Arian controversies, which ran for generations, and finds reasons for patience and for staying together.
Calvin’s years in Geneva are often told as a struggle that ended in triumph. David Wright reads his letters and lectures to show a pastor who stayed through exile, illness and opposition, and asks what his example teaches a divided church.
Were the first Presbyterians people of revival? Keith Beebe traces a line of spiritual awakening from Knox’s Scotland through Ulster and the American colonies, and argues that fervent preaching and communion seasons belong to the Presbyterian inheritance from the start.
Why did the early church condemn a teacher who wanted a god of love and no law? Randall Otto traces Marcion’s views of God, salvation and Scripture and argues that the same spirit is at work in the church today.
Can a church and a society that have lost their way ever recover? Herbert Schlossberg turns to England between Wesley and Victoria, where waves of renewal reshaped schools, reading, morals and law, and finds hope for a discouraged renewal movement today.
Why does the church need discipline at all? In this excerpt from the Institutes, John Calvin calls discipline the sinews of the body, and sets out its stages and its three purposes under the rule of gentleness.
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