On Doubt and Belief By Jordan Hillebert The Church is not always great at dealing with doubt. We tend to swing between two extremes. On the one hand, there are some in the Church who are threatened by the slightest whiff of ... Read More...
A Deadly Kind of Calling By Jordan Hillebert Augustine wept at his ordination. He had arrived in the ancient seaport of Hippo, in part, to avoid becoming a priest. The Catholic Church in North Africa was at that time a relatively... Read More...
Inhabiting a Strange New World How might we make use of spiritual exegesis and the “fourfold sense” in our proclamation of the Bible’s strange new world?
Interpreting a Strange New World Rather than acting as a signpost to the strange new world of Scripture, the sermon all-too-often obstructs our view of the Bible’s terrain. We have lost sight of the strange; our pews remain fixed in the familiar.
Keep Christianity Weird Love Makes No Sense is in many ways a panegyric to the oddity of Christian faith and practice.
Proclaiming a Strange New World Barth asked: What sort of country is spread before our eyes when we throw the Bible open?
Use, Enjoyment, and the Order of Things The recognition that God is the supreme object of our enjoyment fills us with wonder at creation’s transparency to the love and goodness of God.
An apology for theology God is not to be used; God alone is to be enjoyed. Theology is the stubborn pursuit of this enjoyment.
