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Continue reading →: We Become Our Own Judge
Based on this scripture it would be hard to argue against a day of reckoning—a day when everyone that has ever been born will be required to “give an account” for our lives. But we need to understand that our Lord will not be standing over us and arbitrarily pointing…
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Continue reading →: A Calvinist Reads Calvin: Knowing God Entails Relationship
Welcome back to our ongoing series following the thoughts of John Calvin in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. If you are joining the conversation for the first time, you might want to take a moment to read the first paragraph of the first post in the series. Otherwise, I…
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Continue reading →: Round Table: Christian Self-Defense and Lethal Force
Gun violence and lethal force have been hot topics on the evening news and the subject of debate in the social and political spheres for quite some time. Because of this, people are often categorized in one of two camps: those who are for and those who are against lethal weaponry. Instead…
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Continue reading →: By the Waters of Babylon
The waters of Babylon drip from hanging gardens where All that is beautiful in the world grows down from Heaven The headwaters of the garden river from which life flowed And we sit beside them inspired to refrain from singing Hanging our harps like ripened tears on the weeping trees…
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Continue reading →: Finding Your-Self in Communion, Part One
“We will always make lives—we are not free from that inevitability—and they will always be specific, focused, and limited. Through making them, we develop powers of agency and powers of relation, powers that can help guide others through the inevitable project of life-fashioning.”1 Individualism: Am I my brother’s keeper? Such…
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Continue reading →: Weekly Reads {MARCH 05}
Conciliar Post: GEORGE ALDHIZER: REFLECTIONS ON THE CHURCH FATHERS: 1 CLEMENT CHRIS CASBERG: A SONNET ON THE OCCASION OF SUPER TUESDAY JOSEPH GREEN: THE PERVASIVE STRUGGLE OF LONELINESS JOHN EHRETT: NO LONGER SCANDALIZED? MATTHEW BRYAN: IS SOLA SCRIPTURA REALLY A DISAGREEMENT? From Our Authors: JOHANNA BYRKETT: EDGES DREW MCINTYRE: FEBRUARY 2016…
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Continue reading →: No Longer Scandalized?
Revisiting Mark Noll in 2016 Though it’s had an outsize impact on evangelical intellectual culture, I’d never actually sat down with Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind until this past week. Centrally, Noll (himself a Reformed evangelical) argues that the rise of fundamentalism drove a lasting wedge between…
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Continue reading →: A Sonnet on the Occasion of Super Tuesday
For this pack of wolves, it is now the time To the cameras howl and bear shiny teeth All are future kings, if just in their minds But none are better than a common thief I’ll be at my desk away from all the din Fighting ignorance, which is our…
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