Articles
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Losing Face[book]
Why I abandoned the third largest “country” in the world.
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The Calling – A Growing Interest in Vocation
I’ve been watching a documentary on PBS called The Calling. It follows “seven young religious students — Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish — who…
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Performance of the Lectionary in Worship
Being Engaged by the Word
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New Book on the History and Theology of the Formula of Concord
And soon, another on the Creeds and the other Lutheran Confessions
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Peter Rollins’ “Insurrection”
The latest book from a prominent figure in the “Emergent Church Movement”
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They Changed My Bible Again . . and Again . . . and Again
Why I Stopped Worrying About Finding the Perfect Bible Translation: Another Set of Revisions to the English Standard Version
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The 4.74 degrees of separation between you and me
So, apparently, the six degrees that used to separate you and me has shrunk. The number of people separating anyone from anyone else in the…
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Textual Presence and Sermon Preparation: A Visual Feast
This past Thanksgiving, we were watching The King’s Speech and someone sat on the DVD remote. The screen froze. And in the midst of the…
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When social capital trumps theology
Robert Putnam’s substantive findings on religion and civic engagement give us more than enough food for thought.