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Easter deserves more than a day. But in many Protestant churches, one day is all it gets, and I believe that it deserves greater attention. This article makes the case that celebrating Easter as a full season provides an opportunity to make the resurrection of Jesus more explicitly central to the liturgical life and practical […]
Richard Muller’s attack on the Calvin vs. the Calvinists thesis—a thesis which claims that Calvin’s theology was more biblical and unencumbered with the rationalism of later scholastic Reformed theology—has led some to conclude that the very suggestion that later Calvinists disagreed with Calvin is to fall into the very thesis that Muller has already disproven. […]
Ever since the age of five, I’ve been reading my Bible. I fell in love with theology at the age of thirteen. Reading my Bible and reading good books has been a big part of my journey of growing in God’s grace personally and with God’s people. Reading my Bible and reading good books has […]
Engaged ruling elders bring vitality to a congregation. Like life in a city without the infrastructure of roads, water, and power lines, church life without active ruling elders grinds to a halt and pastors, however talented, find themselves drained. Enter Vital Churches: Elder Responsibility for Their Pastors and Congregational Planning by Wendell Faris McBurney, a […]
Introduction In the first chapter of his epistle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul begins an exposition of the nature of humanity’s idolatry. Rather than addressing a particular group (cf. Gal. 1:6) or event (cf. 1 Cor 5:1), Paul describes the condition of “all…men” (Rom. 1:18). In describing this common fallen condition, Paul writes “Claiming […]
Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation. Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 23 Utilized by many in the subsequent Reformed tradition, the threefold office presents Jesus Christ as prophet, priest, and king, who in his saving work fulfilled […]
This issue of identity is an important matter, and we know this innately. We know that there is a lot on the line if we get our identity wrong. Writing about transitioning to a male identity, Hollywood celebrity Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page), said, “Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am […]
Image: Copyright © Edward Riojas. Used by permission. The May-June print edition of Modern Reformation provided stimulating reflections on beauty, goodness, and art—something Protestants have not been known for historically. In his article, “Theology and Beauty: An Enquiry,” Bo Helmich laments that Protestants “have long been criticized for treating beauty with indifference, suspicion, and hostility.” He […]
While Tim Keller continues to write new things, it is hard to write new things about Tim Keller’s books. Virtually all of Keller’s books can be placed into one of two categories—those primarily meant to educate and those primarily meant to edify. In the first category, where pen and highlighter must be kept at the […]
Not long ago, I finished reading (with a sleeping baby on my lap) Catherine Pickstock’s excellent new book Aspects of Truth: A New Religious Metaphysics. It is undoubtedly one of the most difficult—and yet profoundly stimulating—volumes I’ve read this year. I actually set it aside for a month or so between starting and finishing, wondering […]
“And Greater Works Than These You Will Do” I have just finished reading the recent little early history of the church by Fr. David Meconi, SJ., entitled Christ Unfurled: The First 500 years of Jesus’s Life. As the title suggests, the story is told as the fulfillment of Jesus’s words recorded in John 14:12, where […]
O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a King of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. William Shakespeare If ever there was a man haunted by bad dreams it was the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, the Father of Latin American literature and of the genre […]
