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Institutional Church and Ecclesia – David Goa with Brad Jersak
Ecclesiology with godfather Brad: It’s time for me to have a discussion on ecclesiology (the theology of church or ecclesia) with my Eastern Orthodox godfather, David Goa. Though I’ve attended churches since birth and spent 20 years as a full-time clergyman (and now...
C.S. Lewis and Bede Griffiths: Spiritual Friendship – Ron Dart
It was through him (Lewis) that I really discovered the meaning of friendship…. When we last met, a month before his death, he reminded me that we had been friends for nearly forty years. There are not many things more precious to me than that friendship. Bede...
Q & R: The Ethics of the Trinity – Brad Jersak
Question: I've been reading your A More Christlike God. On page 102 you discuss "Trinitarian love". I've always taken the Trinity as a "given," and never really looked into its implications. But as...
Falling Upward – Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr - Falling Upward from Plain Truth Ministries on Vimeo. Interviewer: Steve Stewart (Impact Nations)
Was Jesus White? by Juan Cole
Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which it is often entangled with Christian nationalism, it is worthwhile remembering whose birth, exactly, was commemorated on Sunday. The association of Christianity with...
Cold and Broken, but Hallelujah Nonetheless – Grant Corriveau
This morning for some reason, I got thinking about how “in him we live and move and have our being.” … And how God’s love surrounds and upholds all of us all the time. There are so many moments where God’s presence erupts boldly and unexpectedly and creates a...
Presence of The Presence – Henry Smidstra
Presence of The Presence A ministry of presence is how I defined my pastoral model as prison chaplain. I borrowed the term from David Augsburger (1986); his phrase, the presence of the Presence. With this focus I enhanced my job description’s first item which read,...
Herod Was Religious – Lazar Puhalo
Editor’s note: While many believers celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas day, millions of others extend the celebration of the Incarnation through what they call ‘The Feast of the Nativity’ well into January. In so doing, they think of the Incarnation as...
Jesus, the Refugee Crises and the Sanitization of Christmas – Ron Dart
Richard Harries’ “The Beauty and The Horror” – review by Alex Rayment
The Beauty and The Horror by Richard HarriesISBN:9780281076932 published by SPCK God is good. All the time. All the time. God is good. For that is His nature. But what about right now, in Aleppo? What about in oncology wards? ...