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2018 Winter
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2018 Winter

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When Theology Burns
When Theology Burns

Ray picks up Julian of Norwich's Showings, reads it again, and finds soteriology buried in the oddities of her sentences. The piece is about what happens when a theological text…

Orthodoxy at Stake
Orthodoxy at Stake

The PCUSA's Book of Order has long carried six 'Great Ends of the Church' that mark out what every Presbyterian congregation is for. Small reads them slowly, asks whether contemporary…

Martin Luther: A Moment to Remember
Martin Luther: A Moment to Remember

Gibbons grew up Catholic in Scotland, considered the priesthood as a teenager, and never imagined he would one day preach at the Augustinian cloister in Erfurt where Luther had taken…

Calvin and Barth on the Unity of the Church
Calvin and Barth on the Unity of the Church

Calvin once wrote that he would gladly cross ten seas if it would help mend the church's torn body. Burnett puts that ferocity in conversation with Karl Barth, and asks…

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