God Gone Silent
by Peter J. LeithartChrist's death shows that God also reigns over the silence. Continue Reading »
Sex, Lies, and Suicide
by Jaspreet Singh BoparaiBlake Butler has captured the destructive power of sin far more convincingly than many Christian writers have latterly managed to do. Continue Reading »
The Loss of Wonder Leads to Secularism
by John WatersWe should never seek to make definitive decisions about the limits of the possible until we remind ourselves again of what it is like to be an open-mouthed child before the majesty of reality. Continue Reading »
God Is Not Prissy
by Peter J. LeithartWe need to remember God is Immanuel, God-with-us. Continue Reading »
The Return of Religion
by R. R. RenoJoshua Mitchell has made a strong case that religion has returned to public life. In American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time, he argues that growing numbers of Americans are harried and oppressed by unaddressed guilt and shame. The recession of Christianity as . . . . Continue Reading »
Did Mary Have Agency?
by Kirsten SandersIn her new book Women and the Gender of God, Amy Peeler adds contemporary questions of power and consent to the shopworn themes of feminist theology. Continue Reading »
God's Wrath
by Alastair RobertsNow go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass” (1 Sam. 15:3). The question of divine violence in the Old Testament is hardly a new one for Christians. Non-Christian opponents and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Hand of God in Subway Heat
by Samira KawashThe sun is here. It is the source of the energy that runs the trains, the energy that animates my flesh and that of all those around me, the energy that runs in a circuit connecting everything living, everything moving or changing or growing. Continue Reading »
Is God a Therapist?
by Carl R. TruemanOnly as we bow in awe before such the Triune God of glory will our present sufferings seem but light and momentary. Only then will holiness be the obvious mark of the church. Continue Reading »
Rigorous Divinity
by Scott R. SwainTheology is born of wonder. We see the sun and ask: What light illumines this light? We read of a bush that burns but is not consumed and wonder: What fire burns without need for fuel? Wonder before the realities presented to us by the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture leads us to wonder . . . . Continue Reading »
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