The Power & Privilege of the Pulpit
It is a great task we have before us, to preach a Good Word that is true to the character of God as revealed in scripture.
Good News in a Difficult World
What is unusual is that most of these churches are meeting in bars and pubs.
In Pursuit of Biblical Christianity
We need to be concerned with what is revealed in scripture.
To My Fellow Evangelicals: What You’re Cheering in Jerusalem is Shameful
We do Israel no favors by praying at its celebrations while ignoring the grave injustices taking place not far away.
Am I Not a Theologian, Too?
Theologians are important in all our lives. They are the researchers and scholars who write and lecture about the weighty questions we all — people of faith and no faith — contemplate and wrestle with.
How to Change Hearts on Race
Love without laws is not enough, but for the benefits of our laws to be sustained, loving hearts are a necessity.
Consider the Ram: A Letter on Not Sacrificing One Another on the Altar of Self-Righteousness
What if our acts of fidelity to the tribe our back bumper testifies to have actually been the thing God was satirically calling into question from the beginning?
Why I Bother Being Lutheran: Theology of the Cross
If God was there at the cross, and Jesus rose again, then God could still be here —even after death, even after suffering, after divorce and betrayal. And the theology of the cross that is Lutheran not only heals, but it indicts.
Singing Praise to God, Not America
JUNE 30, 2014 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- There is an often told apocryphal story of the little boy in a worship service who was seated beside...
A Better World is Possible: Reflections on the FTE Christian Leadership Forum
JUNE 25, 2014 | BY: MELVIN BRAY -- Abiding justice requires better theology. Our sense of justice must be informed by something. Ideologies and...