On Returning to the New World
The rich variety we observe in church choices used to mean that ecumenism was an obvious project, though enthusiasm for it seems to have waned since the initial optimism of the early 20th century
“A Merry Heart Goes All the Day”: Why I’m Reading Walter Scott
Scott invests many of his characters with moral goodness and, occasionally, holiness. His heroes and heroines are inspiring. The sheer degradedness and badness of his anti-heroes leaves the strongest impression. The novels are above all about character.
Approaching the End
This week’s readings for the Good Book Club’s journey through John’s Gospel move us ever-closer to the Gospel’s climax, and the end of Jesus’s earthly life and ministry.
Towards a Livelier God
Andreas Wagner’s God’s Body, a revision of an earlier German book, is a fascinating and provocative discussion of anthropomorphism, the presentation of God as an embodied person
“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome
With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.
Editorial: Farewell, Methodist Catholicism
The United Methodist Church has heaved with anguish since its General Conference voted last summer to maintain and enforce the traditional definition of marriage in the Book of Discipline. Church leaders hired an experienced mediator, and plans were announced a few weeks ago for an amicable separation, the final decision to be made at a General Conference later in the year.
Of Hymns and Missionaries
By Daniel Martins
One of the spiritual practices in which I regularly engage is to sit down at a piano or organ keyboard with a hymnal and just play through hymns, allowing myself ample opportunity to reflec... Read More...
The Unselfish Pastor
A pastor is called according to the ministry of Jesus himself, who gave up his life for the world.