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Modern Reformation: Thinking Theologically

William Willimon

  • A New Evaluative Question: "Would Jesus Have to Be Crucified to Make This Sermon Work?": An interview with William Willimon

    One of MR’s aims is to insist that “conservative/liberal” (or “fundamentalist/modernist”) is not the only important distinction to be drawn in the American Protestant landscape. For one thing, not all conservatives are as serious about Scripture as they claim to be. Nor are all so-called liberals actually as compromised as they might at first appear […]

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    Friday, 22 June, 2007 by

  • Working on Our Grammar: An Interview with William Willimon, part II

    In last issue’s Free Space column, we sat down with the dean of the Duke Chapel, Methodist minister Will Willimon, to discuss preaching. As the complete interview was too long to run but too good to truncate, we saved a portion of that interchange that touched on catechesis and discipleship for this issue. -EDS. MR: […]

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    Tuesday, 12 June, 2007 by

  • Peculiar Truth:Postmodern Preaching

    In one of his aphorisms, Nietzsche, father of all things postmodern, asks, "What if truth were a woman?" The question sounds sexist, but my Christ-conditioned ears hear more. What if truth was not detached, objective, free-standing, unconditional, and everything else that modern, Western folk have been taught to think of it? What if truth were […]

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    Wednesday, 30 May, 2007 by