Hans Boersma

The Christian faith does not terminate in propositions about God. This conviction comes through loud and clear in James K. A. Smith’s recently completed three-volume work, Cultural Liturgies. Smith’s trilogy may be read as a friendly yet firm word of ­caution to his Reformed . . . . Continue Reading »

Contemporary monothelites typically get cold feet when it comes to confessing Christ's divinity. Continue Reading »

Modern understandings of creation are Manichaean in propensity. Continue Reading »

The recovery of meaningful church architecture hinges upon the retrieval of a realist metaphysic.  Continue Reading »

It is not ethnic descent but union with Christ that determines one’s place in the household of God. Continue Reading »

Our active life is worthy of celebration only because it aims at the contemplative life. Continue Reading »

Prayer gives us entry into the eschaton, where we see the eternal glory of the Son of God. Continue Reading »

It is God’s eternal Word, incarnate in Christ, which allows us to read the present time.  Continue Reading »

My students are afraid to preach—not all of them, but more and more, it seems. And it is often the brightest and most eloquent, those who are least justified in parroting Moses’s excuse—“I am slow of speech and of tongue”—who lack the confidence to open the Scriptures for the . . . . Continue Reading »

By memorizing, we turn away from sinful distraction and share in God’s own, ever-reliable memory in Christ. Continue Reading »