This post is quite delayed today, mostly because I have run out of words to say about things like this. I am tired of crafting special pastoral prayers
One of the more challenging classes I took in seminary was oddly enough not the big, wooly bear known as “systematic theology” (the study of theology within a
I want to draw attention to a serious gap in Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. I take it that a systematic theology is supposed to be reasonably comprehensive. Yet,
I confess that most of my religious-political life has been an entangled hot mess. Growing up in a conservative, Christian, affluent, middle-class family, allegiance to the Republican party
Like many other young Christians, I learned how to “think christianly” by reading the works of C.S. Lewis. In fact, Lewis’ introduction to what Christians believe, Mere Christianity,
“What is God’s will for my life?” is one of the most asked questions in Christian life. Recently, I heard a great sermon on this topic from Kyle Carper,
From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours, “The Book of Monastic Life,” I. 52 & 53: My life bedecks itself no differentlyfrom the deathbeds of the ancient czars.It’s
When you are a young child the world is mysterious and unknown. There may be monsters hiding under the bed. It seems impossible for the space underneath the