Announcing Faith Across Traditions: Essays from Ten Years of Dialogue at Conciliar Post
Since 2014, Conciliar Post has served as an intentional online community committed to dialogue across Christian traditions. Aiming to provide theological conversations, reflections on Christianity, and commentary on current events from a Christian perspective, Conciliar Post has sought to love God and people through the practice of humble and faithful dialogue. In this spirit of dialogue, we are tremendously excited to announce the publication of Faith Across Traditions: Essays from Ten Years of Dialogue at Conciliar Post (Saint Louis: Arise Press, 2024). This volume encapsulates the best and most popular articles from the first ten years of Conciliar Post, inviting readers to continue the conversation cross faith traditions.
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Faith Across Traditions Table of Contents
Conversions and Denominations
Why Would a Protestant Convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, Cabe
Why I Didn’t Convert to Orthodoxy, Humphrey
Why I’m Not Reformed (But Admire Them Anyway), Ehrett
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Kim
The Non-Denominational Reformation, Prahlow
Is Protestantism a Heresy, Cabe
The Logic of Closed Communion, Ehrett
Do You Have to Be Anti-Western to Be Eastern Orthodox, Cabe
Adventus, Byrkett
The Church Calendar
On the Advent of Christ, Prahlow
Christmas Is About the Cross, Aldhizer
Christmas Is About the Incarnation, Cabe
Remembering Christmas, Maynard
God Is With Us, Byrkett
The Fast Before the Feast, Kishi
Holy Week, Hyland
What Day Did Jesus Die, Prahlow
Through the Rain, Grubb
Ethics and the Christian Life
The Sermon on the Mount and Christian Ethics, Prahlow
Let Justice Roll Down, Justice
What Re-Enchantment Really Means, Ehrett
John Wesley and Small Groups, Dickey
Recovering Koinonia, Walker
Toward a Spirituality of Christian Work, Aldhizer
A Christian Defense of Video Games, Casberg
Confessions of a Single Mom, Barrett
The Insufficiency of Spontaneous Prayer, Landsman
A Sonnet on the Occasion of Super Tuesday, Casberg
Faith in the Public Square
Could Liberals & Conservatives Follow the Same Christ, Tillman
An Open Letter to Christian Bakers in Indiana, Johnson
Dear White Christians, It’s Time for Us to Listen, Quick
Social Justice Without Resurrection Is Dead, Aldhizer
Gnostic Anthropology and Identity Politics, Ehrett
CRT and Its Dissidents, Walker
God Remembers, Lambert
Scripture and Interpretation
The New Testament in Order, Prahlow
Books Removed from the NT, Bryan
Visiting D.C.’s Museum of the Bible, Ehrett
Augustine on Biblical Interpretation, Dickey
In Praise of the English Bible, Rebholtz
Maccabees in the New Testament, Bryan
Sola Scriptura’s Relevance for the Modern Church, Hall
Longings, Schendel
Tradition and Traditions
The Desert Fathers Play Pokémon Go, Casberg
Tradition Is the Answer to Questions We’ve Forgotten, White
Acts of Baptism, Prahlow
Mary, Mother of God, Mother of the Church, Hyland
Things I’d Rather Do On Sunday Morning, Casberg
What John Calvin Taught Me About the Sacraments, Schellhase
Why Is Christian Liturgy So Repetitive, Quick
Three Things That Need to Change About Church, White
What’s the Point of the Sermon, Kim
How Should We Choose the Church We Attend, Aldhizer
Empty Hands, Byrkett
Sin and Salvation
The Natural Desire to See God, Winter
The Pandemic and the Wrath of God, Fletcher
It Is Not a Sin to Wear a Facemask, Townsend
On Original Sin and Racism, Cline
The Atonement of Irenaeus, Bryan
Dare We Hope for the Salvation of All, Winter
The Problem of Predestination, Aldhizer
Is Christian Existentialism Unbiblical, Tillman
A Poem to My Anxiety, Salem
Sorrow and Grief
You Are Not Okay, White
Thoughts, Prayers, and Platitudes, Quick
The Longest Lent, Byrkett
The Lost Art of Evangelical Weeping, Cline
Why God Allows Spiritual Dryness in the Christian Life, Hall
Dealing with Pain and Suffering, McMeans
The Art of Grieving, Byrkett