The Significance of the Cross in John’s Gospel Every year The Living Church’s student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay will be published in the October issue of The Living Church, but several other essays were of such... Read More...
On Being a Theologian of the Cross By Kristine Blaess The season is changing. These past weeks, in the mornings I have been putting the garden to bed. The horn worms have eaten the leaves off the tomatoes, but the plants soldier on, still pro... Read More...
Love and Fear: For Good Friday By Neil Dhingra Now imagine a film projected not on a screen but on a rubbish dump. The story of Jesus — which in its full extent is the entire Bible — is the projection of the trinitarian life of God on the rubbish dump that we have made of the world. —Herb... Read More...
Powerless Christianity By Eugene R. Schlesinger I gave my back to those who struck me and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting. —Isaiah 50:6 Let the same mind be ... Read More...
The Poetry of Reconciliation By Jonathan Mitchican When it comes to interpreting Scripture, N.T. Wright famously said, “We must stop giving nineteenth-century answers to sixteenth-century questions and try to give twenty-first-century a... Read More...
To Set Our Sights on the Cross By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we remember our mortality, our limits, and our utter reliance upon God. It’s also a good time to think about death because we can frame o... Read More...
Meditation on an Image By Len Freeman crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses to preternal forces to say that it mattered and mattered and matters to maker and whittler and gluer and hanger who wandere... Read More...
Centered on Christ Crucified 1 Corinthians By Kimlyn J. Bender Brazos Press, pp. 298, $35 Review by Eugene R. Schlesinger When the first volume of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible appeared 15 years ago, the series pr... Read More...