Christianity

Embracing the Kind of Redeemer God Appointed

Western culture tends to forget that suffering is an irreducible part of the human condition. Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2020

Uncertainty and the Christian

The uncertainties of the present are the building blocks of hope, not its detritus. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2020

A few years ago, when a group of students at Emory University prepared to demonstrate against a controversial speaker, I asked a senior why they wanted to do so. She had a background different from that of the typical selective school attendee, a hard-edged one, and she’d already told me that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Formation for Worship

by 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 »

1 Apr 2020

Easter Vigil

by Mary-Patrice Woehling

You’re rising somewhere in the April nightAgain, as ever with returning spring.Your tomb will be found empty at first light Again. The dead cells of Your corpse igniteAnd flame to life; the spheres of Heaven ring.You’re rising somewhere in the April night To glory. For a moment all is right;The . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Christian Life In Plague-Time

by Kevin Martin

Luther’s letter “Whether One May Flee From A Deadly Plague” finds that elusive middle ground between panic and foolhardiness. Continue Reading »

25 Mar 2020

Creation, Fall, and Coronavirus

by C. C. Pecknold

In some ways, Christians this Lent are like Israel in Babylonian exile, bereft of land and temple. Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2020

The Time of the Virus

by Ephraim Radner

This is a time to turn to God, to reckon God’s gifts, to tend and cherish common responsibilities and the life given through birth, children, and parents. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2020