Winter 2025

Volume 31, Number 1 · Three articles

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Church and Culture
Gender, Sex, and the Kingdom
The Standing Theological Committee of ECO presents an eschatological account of gender and sexuality: not a backward-looking standard, but the new creation Christ is making. Rooted in Revelation 21, the document calls women and men forward into the kingdom rather than into longing or regret.
The Board of Theology Matters12 min read
Confessing the Faith
Freedom for the Gospel, Freedom from Worldly Ideologies: The Barmen Declaration Today
Burgess opens with a year he spent at an East Berlin seminary in the 1980s, when Marxism-Leninism claimed total interpretive authority. Forty years later, he hears the Barmen Declaration's refusal of competing 'lords' speaking again to a church tempted by every ideology offering easier answers than Christ.
John P. Burgess20 min read
Discipleship
Living East of Eden – Pastoral Reflections on How Theology Matters
Miller takes Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi as the question that follows every pastor home: who do you say that I am? A conference address mixing personal story with theological seriousness, reflecting on living and ministering east of Eden, between hell's gates and the keys of the kingdom.
James Miller15 min read