The necessity of good works
We are saved by faith alone, so our good works don't matter, right? Not so fast, grasshopper!
Unpacking via media
Greg Garrett suggests American politics would benefit if the nation learned about via media from us Episcopalians. But is via media about compromise, as he suggests?
Choose this day whom you will serve
We can believe in many things and serve many masters. The choice you make is the most important choice of your life.
The husband is the head of the wife?
Some find offensive the biblical claim that the husband is the head of the wife. Others see the doctrine as God's law. What are we to make of this?
Is Spirit another name for Reason?
Some Christians justify actions by claiming the authority of the Spirit. Are there times when the Spirit contradics Jesus?
Creator, sustainer, redeemer?
Why not substitute a formula like "Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer" as a substitute for the traditional trinitarian name of "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"? Does it matter?
A response to Ross Douthat
Douthat is right in his reminder of the important ways in which liberal Christianity contributes positively to Western culture, but he is wrong in his diagnosis of our decline.
When it’s all about you
"The secular age is, for Charles Taylor, an era in which unbelief is the default context in which we encounter and seek fullness and human flourishing."