A Modern-Day Pastoral Rule Mark Clavier August 14, 2020 Books, Church in Wales, Ministry, Reviews & Culture These will be useful volumes to own — a kind of encyclopedia of pastoral wisdom to dip in and out of and a useful corrective to models of mission and ministry that over-emphasize advocacy or achievement at the expense of personal relationships.
President Trump and Evangelicals’ Shifting Playbook Benjamin Guyer August 4, 2020 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump By John Fea Eerdmans Pp. 238 $24.99. Review by Benjamin Guyer John Fea opens the conclusion of Believe Me by relating a conversation that occurred at an ... Read More...
“Unto Whomsoever Much is Given, of Her Shall Much Be Required” Brandt Montgomery June 23, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules: A History of the Episcopal Church in Alabama By J. Barry Vaughn The University of Alabama Press, 2013, pp. 264. $49.95 Review By Brandt L. Montgomery June 27, 2020 will be a historic day in the 190-year history of ... Read More...
Reading Scripture as Centered on Jesus Guest Contributor March 13, 2020 Bible, Books, Exegesis, Reviews & Culture The Swiss theologian’s striking insights on core Christian doctrines glisten through this superb collection of essays plumbing his engagements with gospel texts.
Nature, Grace, and Adoption Abigail Woolley Cutter March 6, 2020 Books, Ethics, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Since it is small, accessible, and thoroughly theological, it would be an excellent resource for beginning a conversation on adoption and assisted reproduction among pastors or seminary students, who may be asked to counsel other Christians.
The Play’s the Thing Guest Contributor February 21, 2020 Books, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God offers a provocative, well-researched look at the spaces that literature and theology can cohabit
In Search of Cohesion Guest Contributor January 31, 2020 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture As much as we would have it be otherwise, we, as Christians, really cannot rely on “nature” to provide an answer to many ethical questions. We are a people united in our belief that our human nature is beloved and capable of union with the divine, but what precisely human nature is, is a truly complicated question.
Two Perspectives on the Founder of Taizé Guest Contributor January 21, 2020 Books, Reviews & Culture By Andreas Westergren There is a moving image of frère Roger (Roger Schütz), the founder of the Taizé community in southern France, somewhere in a ghetto in the Philippines. Walking on top of a giant rubbish... Read More...
