How to Preach Badly, Part One: Good Preaching By Steve Schlossberg If what follows in this three-part series reads like a yet another knockoff of The Screwtape Letters, you’ve discovered my inspiration. Instead of speaking for the devil, however, I am s... 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 ... Read More...
Christian Teaching in a Post-Literate Society By Abigail Woolley Cutter Readers of Covenant are, it’s safe to say, readers of many other things as well. Not only blog essays, news stories, and meditations like those published here, but perhaps also commentaries, spiritual writings, books of theology an... 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...
Why Study Biblical Languages? By Paul D. Wheatley “And there in the dark pools amid the Gladden Fields,” said, “the Ring passed out of knowledge and legend; and even so much of its history is known now only to a few, and the Council of th... Read More...
This Also Is Thou: Neither Is This Thou By William N. McKeachie The most esoteric of the Inklings, Charles Williams, used the adage serving as the title of this essay as the epigraph for his many-dimensional history of Christendom, The Descent of the Dove. It struck me as complementary to another... Read More...
Summer Camp as Catechetical Lectio Divina By Joseph Roberts Lectio divina, the ancient practice of reading and meditating on Scripture, has seen a huge resurgence as of late. You can now even download apps that are meant to help you along the path o... Read More...
Figurative Interpretation, Literal Fear By Tom Smith I have never been better served in my life than when I have had to confront something difficult. We want truth but we dislike pain. However, they are often bound together. The pressure that pain... Read More...