The Reign of Grace
We are inescapably religious, and for David Zahl this is more of a curse than a blessing.
Millennial Burnout and The Good Place
The problem is not that millennials don’t know how to work, it’s that work is all they know.
The Dread Spirit of the Age
This bundle of ideas — nihilism, atheism, the need to create our values, the reduction of everything to power — lies behind much that is deeply problematic in our time.
The Gospel and the Works of God
In Acts 15, St. James and the Jerusalem Council take for granted that Gentile Christians will do just this: follow the commands of God.
From Abraham to Cornelius
When Peter met Cornelius, he entered into what God has been up to since he called Abraham.
A practical question on law/gospel
Grace underlines all of what we do in school, but it is always a grace that assumes action and discipline.
The sound and the Spirit
Ascension and Pentecost represent two movements — the upward and the downward — of Luke’s “new Sinai,” the initiation and ratification of Christ’s new covenant.
500 years after Luther, the law/gospel insight remains almost true
Luther's understanding of the gospel has a tremendous liberating appeal, but also grave hermeneutical consequences.