27 articles from 25 issues, 1995 to 2026 · Page 2 of 3
Does the preaching model of Luther, Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Bullinger, and Calvin still speak to a generation shaped by smart phones, Hulu, and Instagram? Gibbons argues that the Reformers' way of preaching is not a museum piece but a working practice, and shows how it travels into the digital age.
Sixteenth-century Reformers worked in a vacuum where ancient heresies clamored for reconsideration. Finch shows how Calvin held to Nicene and Chalcedonian Christology even while insisting on sola scriptura, and what his way of speaking carefully about Jesus has to teach a church facing similar pressures today.
Karl Barth once described Calvin as 'a cataract, a primeval forest, a demonic power.' Goodloe doesn't disagree but finds, like Barth, that one could profitably spend a lifetime there. The piece reads Calvin on church unity for what he still has to teach a fragmenting PCUSA.
Where does a counterfeit gospel come from? Randal Working turns to Romans 1 and Calvin to argue that starting from human experience replaces revelation with speculation, and then asks whether Reformed Christians should stay in the PC(USA).
How might a household keep Advent with John Calvin as a guide? Edwin Hurley gathers daily Scripture readings, selections from the Institutes and Calvin’s Christmas sermons, and Calvin’s own prayers into a devotional for the weeks before Christmas.
What can sixteenth-century believers teach us about living under the Bible’s authority? Ann White follows Luther, Calvin and women such as Argula von Grumbach and Katherina Schutz Zell to show what faith, obedience and study looked like in the first Reforming generations.
How can Calvin speak of human dignity and of total depravity in the same breath? Michael Horton traces the paradox of a glorious creation and a willful fall through the Institutes, and asks why the modern church has lost both halves.
What does the Reformed tradition say a church is, and when may a Christian leave one? Dennis Okholm turns to Calvin and Barth on the church’s nature, its marks, the sin of schism and its mission, and asks what they mean for the PC(USA).
Why does God let false teachers trouble his church at all? Opening a new regular feature, the Board turns to Calvin on 2 Peter: the turmoil shows whether we truly love God, and it asks whether we share the Father’s heart for the lost.
What did Calvin teach about baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and what does he still offer Presbyterians? Viola Larson works through Book Four of the Institutes, showing sacraments that seal God’s promise in Christ and depend on the Word and the Spirit.
Why does the church talk only about trials when it talks about discipline? Charles Wiley turns to the Consistory of Calvin’s Geneva, where most cases were quarrels between relatives, and argues that discipline should begin with the ordinary, local and restorative kind.
Are law and grace rival visions of the church, or two sides of one coin? John Burgess draws on Calvin, the Reformed confessions and the Ten Commandments to argue that God’s law is God’s gracious claim on our lives, and that a divided church needs a renewed theology of it.
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