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Joseph Mangina

Joseph Mangina, PhD is professor of theology at Wycliffe College, Toronto. His published work includes Karl Barth on the Christian Life (Peter Lang, 2001), Karl Barth: The Ecumenical Promise of His Theology (Ashgate, 2004), and the Brazos Commentary on Revelation (2010). From 2008 to 2017 he was the editor of Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

St. John, Witness to the Incarnate God

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Matthew and Luke give us the infancy stories. John's Gospel offers a commentary that we might know that the baby is the Word of the Father.

On Letting God Have the Verbs: A Celebration with Fleming Rutledge

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By God’s grace, sermons can be revelatory moments, “events” of the Word of God. This is the on-going witness of Fleming Routledge to Christ.

The Playful Science: Theology and the Art of Volleyball

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The grace of God sets us free to worship, learn, teach, write, and otherwise play a part in the work of the kingdom.

Fittingness: Reading Atonement Theology in Lent

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Lent is often a time of catechesis, and it is an especially opportune season to explore one of the most basic catechetical questions, “Why did Jesus have to die?”

Drowning in the Waters: Notes on Baptism

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Many parishes will have baptisms this Sunday, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In Baptism, water is poured. The new Christian dies and rises with Christ. Grace happens. What, though, is the role of the Covenant added to many Baptismal rites, for example in TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada?

Haunting the Father: MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul

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I am a latecomer to George MacDonald’s The Diary of an Old Soul. I knew about the Scotsman MacDonald (1824-1905), of course; had read...

Breathe on Me, Breath of God

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With the launch of TLC's new website, you can now subscribe to Covenant, receiving it every day right in your inbox. — Editor. “The Holy Spirit is...

Figural Graffiti

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With apologies to W.H. Auden  Everything within creation Speaks of Jesus’ Incarnation. Likewise too, his saving Passion Is shown forth in all that’s fashioned. The Word God spoke before...

Waiting for the Beloved: Advent in the Key of Love

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News junkie that I am, I confess to indulging in a certain frequency of doomscrolling. I move from one story to another, compiling a...

Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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In Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster movie Oppenheimer, the renowned physicist (played by Cillian Murphy) is twice heard quoting religious texts. One of these is...
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