Burn the Witch: Radiohead, Refugees, Britain First, Sadiq Khan & the Donald – Reactions by Brad Jersak
Burn the Witch, Radiohead, Refugees, Britain First, Sadiq Khan, the Donald, Brad Jersak, Michael Hardin
Two Types of Spirituality: Chaucer or Bunyan? – Ron Dart
We live at a period of time in which two types of spirituality are vying for the hearts and minds of many. The “I’m spiritual but not religious” slogan and cliché is but a symptom of such worldviews at odds. The differences between these outlooks have a 500-year-old history and such perspectives continue to play themselves out in a social way and manner. There is the Classical tradition as embodied in a catholic and Chaucerian heritage. There is the Protestant tradition as embodied in a modern, anarchist and Bunyanist heritage.
Re-Sacralizing Violence in the Left Behind Books – Paul Nuechterlein
From the perspective of mimetic theory, the most serious problem with the Left Behind series of novels, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins,(1) is their re-sacralization of violence. Their version of Jesus is no longer the Lamb slain but the same beastly violence of...
Nonviolence and the Book of Revelation – Paul Nuechterlein
There are sixty-six books in the Christian Bible, none of which has provoked more controversy, esoteric speculation, or misunderstanding than the very last one — Revelation. In the fourth century notable scholars like Chrysostom and Eusebius hesitated to include Revelation in the canon.
Armageddon – Brian Zahnd
Tel-Megiddo The second Sunday after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I preached a sermon entitled “The Road To Armageddon.” During those days of grief and rage when I should have preached the gospel of peace and forgiveness, I instead resorted to the...
Question & Response: How should we understand God’s ‘Sovereignty’? – with Brad Jersak
QUESTION: Bradley, my wife and I met you recently at the Grace Conference. I asked a question about sovereignty, and your response addressed misunderstandings of what sovereignty means. Would you please elaborate and give some additional sources for me to...
The Perils of Caged and Free Range Christians – Brad Jersak
Top news in American Christianity The top news item in American Christianity over the past few years continues to be the ‘nones’ (non-affiliated) phenomenon. Is the exodus of churchgoers a blessed deliverance from bondage or a cursed wandering in the...
What does the writing of dialogue add to the theology of love? – Essay by Jessica Scott
In this article, I shall focus on one divergence: the departure from the assumptions underlying ‘subject-verb-object’ structure towards a dynamic of reciprocity in which the speaker is both active and passive, both giver and recipient. This concept of reciprocity is generative for our theology in its bringing to bear a love which is at once engaged in all that we do here and now, in our contingent finitude, yet also in its endlessness is attached, necessarily, to infinity.
The End of Just War: Why Christian Realism Requires Nonviolence Stanley Hauerwas
The End of Just War: Why Christian Realism Requires Nonviolence Stanley Hauerwas
Bono & Eugene Peterson: The Psalms
Bono, Eugene Peterson, Psalms