Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other By Chip Russell Tobacco use was once so prevalent and socially acceptable that we could hardly imagine a world without it. Now it’s by and large exiled from polite society, having been rightly identified as ... Read More...
Artificial Intelligence: Coming Soon to a Church Near You! By Nicholas Knisely and Kirk Smith A.I., or Artificial Intelligence, is a topic we are hearing much about recently. Television specials tout its promises and its dangers, while social media users debate its ... Read More...
Branding Jesus By Kelly Wilson Church attendance is in decline. This has given birth to many articles and think pieces exploring why churches are shrinking, and has prompted many churches to increase their efforts at evangelism. While spreading the good news is obviously ... Read More...
On Shared Humanity and Diverse Religion: Notes from Egypt By Jeff Boldt My wife and I recently moved our four kids to Egypt, where I now work for the bishop in the Alexandria School of Theology. I’m not a complete stranger to North Africa and the Middle East. I’ve ... Read More...
For Such a Time as This Esther 3:1-5:8 By Hannah Matis If thrillers, even when unrealistic, give you a sense of what people are afraid of in contemporary society, romance novels can be surprisingly effective barometers of hope. Pr... Read More...
Called to Be Countercultural? By Charlie Clauss With the Baby Boomer generation aging, it is a good time to consider the ideas behind counterculturalism. A term coined in 1960, it has had staying power as a description of critical movements in that decade. As the post-World War II years... Read More...
In But Not Of the World of Fashion Fashion Theology By Robert Covolo Baylor, pp. 216, $39.99 Review by Travis J. Bott Robert Covolo’s Fashion Theology begins with two epigraphs. The first comes from the French philosopher Yves Michaud: ... Read More...
Not Ashamed at the Gates By Sam Keyes Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, * even so are the young children. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; * they shall not be ashamed when they speak with the... Read More...