The sirens in our pockets
Three recent books share a common thread, one that echoes concerns anticipated by Marshall McLuhan. What’s at stake, they argue, is nothing short of our humanity.
Hartmut Rosa says we’re running faster just to stay in place
The German sociologist’s theory of “resonance” offers an alternative: deceleration.
I wish Francis Su had been my third-grade math teacher
Su’s book is about math and human flourishing. It’s also about how to be a teacher.
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Is evangelicalism at war with science?
It depends which evangelicals you’re asking.
The witness of Eugene Peterson
Peterson never delivered a formula for success. He just wrote about pastoral work and how to live it.
Scientists welcome: A challenge for congregations
The geophysicist's talk had none of the triumphalism of efforts to prove God exists. It was the testimony of experience—and it was unequivocal doxology.
The pastor and other sinners
To Eugene Peterson, a church is not a demarcated zone of idealized community. The potential for misdirection and distraction abounds.
From Midterms to Ministry: Practical Theologians on Pastoral Beginnings
Over the past eight years, I had the privilege of serving as program coordinator for the Lilly Endowment’s Transition into Ministry grants program....
The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago
Erasmus, writing in the early 16th century, provided a scathing critique of the waning, often abusive practi...
A second time around
What books compel a second—or third or fourth—reading? How is the second reading different from the first, and what does the difference reveal about the book or the reader? We asked ten writers, including Margaret Miles, Gordon Atkinson, Mary Doria Russell, Diana Butler Bass and David Cunningham, to name a book that they chose to reread, and to share their reactions "the second time around."
The Last Long Pastorate, by F. Dean Lueking & Ministry Loves Company, by John Galloway Jr.
Pastors need to reflect on their lives--on what they do, why they do it, and how such doing shapes a way of life. F. Dean Lueking and John Galloway Jr....
Prime time: Albert Borgmann on taming technology
For Albert Borgmann, philosophy is a way of taking up the questions that reside at the center of everyday life—questions that are urgent but often inarticulate....
Pastors on purpose
Leadership on the Line:Staying Alive Throughthe Dangers of Leading.By Ronald A. Heifetz and MartyLinsky. Harvard Business School,252 pp., $27.50....
“The best life”: Eugene Peterson on pastoral ministry
Eugene Peterson on pastoral ministry