Theology

Theology

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Embrace & abandonment

A pastor and a poet talk about God

May 29, 2013 Matt Fitzgerald and  Christian Wiman

"We aren't the first people to experience God as the slice and the stitches at the exact same time. The paradox is ancient. Jesus embodied it."

Faith Matters

Grace without conversion

Jun 17, 2013 by M. Craig Barnes

Our congregation helped build a parish school in the West Bank. In return, Palestinian Christians stretched our understanding of the gospel.

Then and Now

Mormonism and race 35 years after the end of the priesthood restriction

Jun 12, 2013 by Margaret Blair Young

The musical The Book of Mormon portrays two naïve Mormon missionaries in Uganda proclaiming that “in 1978, God changed his mind about black people.” The joke isn’t mere whimsy; the LDS Church is widely perceived as racist. The irony is that had the church followed its initial trajectory, by now it likely would have become the most racially integrated and progressive church in America.

Books

After Cloven Tongues of Fire

Protestant Liberalism in
Modern American History

By David A. Hollinger

After Cloven Tongues of Fire, by David A. Hollinger

Jun 05, 2013

After Cloven Tongues of Fire is a collection of historian David Hollinger’s writings on 20th-century Amer­ican Protes­tantism. Hollinger is interested both in pinpointing ecumenical Protestant influence on the United States and in tracking signs of its decline.

Features

Nearest kin

R. Kendall Soulen on Christians and Jews

Jun 04, 2013 by David Heim

"Supersessionism is like a submerged resentment that infects all our social relationships. That's why overcoming it is so important."

Books

The Scandal of Having Something to Say

Ricoeur and the Possibility of
Postliberal Preaching

By Lance B. Pape

The Scandal of Having Something to Say, by Lance B. Pape

May 30, 2013 reviewed by Walter Brueggemann

Perhaps the best entry point into The Scandal of Having Something to Say is the word postliberal in the subtitle, which requires that we consider the term liberal, to which this perspective is “post.” The term liberal most comprehensively relates to Enlightenment rationality, which posits an autonomous self which can arrive at a one-dimensional certitude.