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Is God Irrelevant?
Is something good because God approves or commands it? Or is it the other way around: does God approve or command things—actions, or rules of conduct, or personal characteristics—because they are good?
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...