Resources by Cameron Brooks - Modern Reformation

Moonlight Oracles

*** I. We squatted among the cattails on ﬁve-gallon buckets ﬂipped and ﬂecked with cement older than me. The country pond winked in the moonlight as we waited for channel cats to fetch the chicken liver wound around our treble hooks. We waited with the crickets and the bullfrogs. We waited in the darkness of […]

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Wednesday, 01 March, 2023 by Cameron Brooks
Missed Flight

*** Waiting at Gate 3 with my boarding pass and Birkenstocks, I noticed on the wall a matte moonrise over a zag of Badlands sandstone: the violet November vault, the cedars in the crags, every probability of a Peregrine perched somewhere in the shadows. And now I see it, rising on the nascent night, navy-winged, […]

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Wednesday, 01 March, 2023 by Cameron Brooks

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The Meaning of “God”

Jan 22, 2021

Modernity, Pluralism, and Doubt Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Charles Taylor’s monumental A Secular Age was the simple observation that modern believers and unbelievers experience the world in much the same way. Whether raised by a homeschooling family who taught you to be a six-day creationist, or the child of an irreligious couple in San […]
Unhappily Married or Happily Divorced? The False Dilemma

Jan 25, 2021

Whatever we believe the Scriptures say about legitimate grounds for divorce, the assumption that marital dissolution should not be common among those who claim to follow Christ and Biblical teaching is reasonable. The pertinent passages recognized in the New Testament at most allow for divorce and remarriage only for egregious violations of the marital covenant […]
Biblical Nonconformity

Feb 19, 2021

Nonconformity is all the rage. Our culture applauds rebellion against social norms and encourages boldly standing apart. Sometimes this nonconformity is minor. It looks like fuchsia hair, living in a tiny house, eating only fruit and veggies. Other times nonconformity is something more extreme. The most immediate example is gender nonconformity. Biologically sexed males and […]
The Model for Christian Manhood: Introduction

Jun 16, 2021

When I used to lead women’s ministry at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, I helped organize our yearly Women’s Retreats. The men, however, never had Men’s Retreats. They had Men’s Advances. Retreats, as they saw it, were for sissies. Nevermind that the larger church adopted the concept of retreat from Jesus’s example in the Gospels. […]

Moonlight Oracles

Missed Flight