Homegrown VBS: Rescuing our children from the pandas
Most VBS curricula pander in pathetic ways to pop culture, skimp on thoughtful interpretations of Scripture, and leave kids with throwaway craft projects and a thin version of the Christian faith.
Bishop Carpenter and civil rights in Alabama
Why could Carpenter not see that the time for social change was then and immediate, not gradual and worked out over time?
The past no paradise: Returning to The Innocent Curate
I plead for the renewed reading of The Innocent Curate, as a general portrait of an Episcopal Church in the heyday of its mid-20th-century revival.
The surprising story of the Religious Right
Williams traces the Religious Right back to the surge of fundamentalist public presence that followed the First World War.
The Bible and Rob Bell
Rob Bell is crafting a religious system that is only tangentially related to orthodox Christianity, and which increasingly appears to make Christian habits of thought and language purely optional.
Beyond the impasse
In the Analogical Turn, Johannes Hoff’s chief argument is that at the very birth of modern times, Nicholas of Cusa offered a path-not-taken, one definitively forward-looking.
Radner: Figuring Out Time
Radner's book on figural exegesis is a gift to the Church, and warrants serious, sustained attention by pastors and scholars alike.
Spiritual beauty
The creative and appreciative urge are the work of the Holy Spirit, which always has one job in a human life — to make us the creatures God intends.