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The Reverend Joseph D. Small has served as pastor, was the former director of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Theology and Worship, and now serves as a consultant to the Presbyterian Foundation.
“All The Ministers Shall Meet Together”
When Martin
Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on true repentance at the Wittenberg
Castle church in 1517, John Calvin was an eight-year-old French schoolboy. He
was first...
Orthodoxy at Stake
For over a century, a small gem has been embedded in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Book of Order: the “Great Ends of the Church.” Six great purposes of the church’s life – the life of every congregation and of the whole denomination.
John Calvin
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,...
Theology
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...
Theology
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...
Theology
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:...
Confessing the Faith
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...