Fall 2021
Volume 27, Number 4 · Three articles
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Confessing the Faith
“Live Not By Lies”
Ninety years ago a small group of pastors and elders in Barmen refused the Nazis' attempt to colonize the gospel. Working revisits Karl Barth's text and finds a confession that still names the temptation: any blood-and-soil ideology that asks the church to add another word to the one Word of God.
Randal Working18 min read -
Church and Culture
Struggling to “Live Not by Lies”
Crocco listens to a psychiatrist friend who can't say what she actually thinks about gender dysphoria treatment without losing her license. The conversation pulls Solzhenitsyn's plea to 'live not by lies' from the Soviet bloc into our own moment, and asks what costs Christians should expect.
Stephen D. Crocco30 min read -
Theology
Running to the Sound of Gunfire
A 2021 conference address from Stephen Crocco on the courage Christians need to run toward the difficult places rather than away. The metaphor is military, the application is pastoral, and the audience is Reformed believers wondering whether to keep speaking at all.
Stephen D. Crocco1 min read
