The Harvest Is Plentiful But the Laborers Are Few By Peter Robinson As I was growing up, my church did regular mission trips with groups of people from the church. I don’t mean overseas missions. We did missions to other churches in our part of the world. T... Read More...
Seven Arrows of Bible Reading By Sarah Puryear Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them that we may embrace and ever hold fast the bl... Read More...
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 with the way actual practitioners of religious tra... 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...
Bibliolatry: the Exvangelical Boogeyman By David Beadle During my first week of seminary, at chapel orientation, a professor said that Scripture was the foundation of Anglican worship. I knew I was going to an evangelical seminary, but I didn’t ex... Read More...
There and Back Again: Historical-Critical Skepticism and Renewed Faith By Jay Mills I was a very lapsed Episcopalian in the late 1960s and 1970s. I left to join the revolution, the one that never panned out in bringing a better world. In the meantime, I became what can only be called addicted to the excesses of youth culture. ... Read More...
This Month Shall Be for You Esther 9:20-10:3 By Jon Jordan A little over a month ago I finished reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It is the first in a now four-book series spanning roughly five centuries and centered on the... Read More...
‘Secular’ Neglect, Salvation Anyway: Esther 5:9–8:14 and the Theology of the Book of Esther By Wesley Hill In my work as a New Testament professor, I regularly introduce students to the Jewish diaspora — the post-exilic life of the people of I... Read More...
