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.
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.”
Redemption revisited
Faith is formed in us by the Spirit and the life of the church. It renews our elemental confidence and creates our disposition toward the world.