When Christian practice (de)forms us
Do practices make us better people? Lauren Winner isn't so sure.
sin
Take & read: New books in New Testament
Can we read scripture critically and theologically at the same time?
N. T. Wright’s creative reconstruction of Paul and his world
Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it?
It is the church's work.
Thirty years later my petty crime came back to haunt me.
"It's a sin problem," goes the slogan, "not a gun problem." Whatever definition of sin is operative here, it isn't Paul's.
Sin distorts the reciprocity for which God made us.
There are two sure things in life: death and sin.
People do terrible things. So does the biblical God. Is there value in naming those things?
“I tried to remember that these are human beings, not caricatures.”