Can It Be Forgotten?
By David Barr
In my second year of graduate school, I had the opportunity to take a course called “What Is Scripture?” with the prominent Jewish philosopher and theologian Peter Ochs. Ochs, deeply concerned ... Read More...
The Function of the ‘Enjoy Life’ Passages in the Book of Ecclesiastes
Every year The Living Church’s student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay will be published in the October issue of The Living Church, but several other essays were of such... Read More...
How To Hate Your Family
By Clinton Wilson
Whether we are speaking of our families, or any relationships in which we find ourselves, we must learn to hate them in the right way, so we don’t learn to hate them — or they don’t learn t... Read More...
Jacob’s Ladder for Christians: A Meditation Upon the Seven Sacraments
By Jean McCurdy Meade
The founders of the monastic movements of the Middle Ages often used the metaphor of a monastery or convent as an enclosure from the world in which God could reveal a ladder to and from... Read More...
God or Wealth?
By Bryan Owen
"When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.”
Those words are attributed to John Wesley, the 18th-century Anglican priest and founder of Methodism. And ther... Read More...
The Unsettling God of Abraham
By Tyler Been
"'God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob,’ not of philosophers and scholars.” After Blaise Pascal’s death, a piece of parchment with these words was found sewn into his clothing. It is now ... Read More...
A Survey of Historic Romans Commentaries
By John Mason Lock
While it’s not the earliest nor the longest book in the New Testament, there is a strong case to be made that Paul’s Letter to the Romans is the most important document in the New Testamen... Read More...
Defamiliarizing Biblical Narrative: Or, On Keeping Scripture Weird
By Joseph L. Mangina
The etymology of the word weird is, if not actually weird, then at least complicated and interesting. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it started out life as a noun, meaning “... Read More...