The Toughness of Salvation September 13, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features The novelist dares the reader to consider the toughness of salvation, the blood of it, and the way we may need for love to be harsh in order to be saved.
Barton’s Bible Balancing Act September 9, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features In A History of the Bible, John Barton seeks to demonstrate the diversity, greatness, and even incongruence of some of the Bible’s constituent parts with the faiths that appeal to them. Barton acknowledges this may be “an uncomfortable balancing act.”
Engaging Diversity in Theological Commentary September 6, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features This commentary delivers what it promises: in both parts, for Judges and for Ruth, the authors carefully identify relevant theological themes arising from the text, and suggest ways of reading the texts that connect them with wider theological issues and debates.
Hospitality and Mercy Are Timeless May 31, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features Matt Opatrny: “It’s important to show refugees as people under desperate circumstances.”
Due Honor for John Jewel May 30, 2019 Essays & Reviews Richard Hooker, whom Jewel had taught as a boy, wrote that his teacher was the “worthiest divine that Christendom hath bred for some hundreds of years.”
A Flag and a Seal: Two Histories May 16, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features The design of the presiding bishop’s seal was derived from the church flag by Major George M. Chandler, formerly a member of the Joint Commission of Flag and Seal.
A Priest’s Cautionary Narrative May 13, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features It seems still difficult to talk about all the ways in which laity abuse clergy. The power does not always lie on the side of the ordained.
Hauerwas, Thiselton: Two Very Different Theological Styles May 9, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features Theology is not neat and tidy, but is messy and incomplete, which invites other voices into the conversation for our mutual enrichment: there is more than one way to do this, and we need them as well. System... Read more...
The Church of England’s Vanishing Matriarchs May 8, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen The Final Active Anglican Generation By Abby Day Oxford University Press. Pp. 272. $70.00. Review by Richard J. Mammana In this vitally important new book, the Uni... Read more...
Retirement: What Might That Be? May 7, 2019 Essays & Reviews, Features By Philip Turner Our society really does not know what to do with its elderly citizens, and in consequence we are not sure of what to do with ourselves. To my mind, failure to provide a place for the wisdom ... Read more...
