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A boldly nonpropositional systematic theology
Kevin Hector presents theology as itself a practice of faith.
My son the PK said no to baptism
For now, anyway. After our discernment together, I consider this a success.
One person’s self-made hell
Recently I attended the trial of a woman accused of killing a college student in a hit and run.
Episode 39: Pastor and activist Bruce Reyes-Chow, author of Everything Good About God is True
A conversation with pastor and activist Bruce Reyes-Chow about Spirit, Desmond Tutu, baptism, and more
My bookshelf at the end
Packing up my library, I decided to let go of my Wolfhart Pannenberg books—and the wounds they represent.
Where are the children in liberation theologies?
Child advocate R. L. Stollar seeks to help people read the Bible in ways that protect and honor children.
May 5, Easter 6
(1 John 5:1–6; John 15:9–17)
(1 John 5:1–6; John 15:9–17)
The Christian faith often gives friendship short shrift.
The Court’s embrace of the divine right of presidents
In the Trump v. United States oral arguments, the conservative justices sought what Justice Gorsuch called “a rule for the ages”—one that doesn’t impair the sovereign grandeur of presidential power.
On watch (Acts 8:26-40; Psalm 22:25-31; 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8)
Fruitful ministry becomes sustainable when it is shared, person to person and generation to generation.
Monsters and their beautiful work
Claire Dederer thinks through what it means to consume art produced by people who have said or done terrible things.
A world with no boundaries
Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories of love and defiance escape the plane of realism.
Movement of the soul
Justin Peck’s choreography takes the language of ballet and turns it into something more.
Trending topics: Exvangelical women’s memoirs
Five new memoirs by women who left evangelicalism
April 28, Easter 5B (John 15:1–8; 1 John 4:7–21)
In biblical Greek, the word we translate as “abide” is active rather than passive.