Dear ______: So good to hear from you! Glad to hear that you are doing well. Summer plans? The confusing spot you are in is, in a way, a lovely benefits of a residential seminary: you regularly talk with other people who are in the thick of theological exploration. They come from different backgrounds. They have different assumptions. They may be chewing on classes you […]
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“Eat This Book” — online at the Presbyterian Outlook
I recently had the privilege of writing the “Benedictory” essay in The Presbyterian Outlook. Usually these are behind a pay wall for subscribers only, but because my friend Scott Black Johnson of 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan (check out their cool welcome video here) asked to share it with his congregation, they opened it up — at […]
Finding a Good Children’s Bible
Reading to my children is one of my great joys as a parent. Helping my children know, and love, and trust God is one of my great hopes as a Christian. Enter that sometimes vexing genre, the “Children’s Bible.” On many levels a children’s Bible is a great idea. Reading the Bible, uncut, to my five and […]
Good Friday: Mystery and Paradox
Last year I posted on the meaning of “Good” in “Good Friday.” Today my thoughts go more to the stunned awe that the Cross of Christ inspires. My love for Jesus always makes a reading of the Passion painful, especially read aloud in worship, and most especially if I am the one doing the reading. […]
Lent: On Repentance
Lent is coming. That means you still have a few days to get ready to take a dive into repentance. Chances are that doesn’t sound like such a great offer. Especially in the Protestant world we have a pretty hard time with repentance. We associate the word “repent” with our lunatic fringe, carrying signs about the […]
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