Resources by Joey Jekel - Modern Reformation

“On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living” by Alan Noble: A Review

InterVarsity Press | 2023 | 120 pages (hardcover) | $20.00 In the 2012 film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on a novel by Stephen Chbosky, a high school first-year student named Charlie grapples with the suffering of those around him. As someone with undisclosed trauma from childhood, Charlie is especially observant of and […]

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Friday, 01 September, 2023 by Joey Jekel
Augury

*** A growing headache as the pick-up glides on the interstate. I start to look outside the window to soothe the pain I feel in my temples. Remnants of trash scatter in the wind, or wait—birds hovering over the highway brambles. And other birds, crows, I believe, revolve in a dance above the truck like […]

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Friday, 01 July, 2022 by Joey Jekel

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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. […]

“On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living” by Alan Noble: A Review

Augury