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A Crown of Inheritance: The Veil

Some Christian women chose to veil. This spiritual practice, rich in scriptural echoes, should be discerned between a woman and God.

Growing with the Grain of Creation

A consumer economy breeds a consumer faith. Churches modeled on market dynamics are ultimately incapable of creating deep covenant community.

Grace Is an Adverb

Returning thanks is the disposition of the redeemed heart before God, “from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed."

Coltrane Hits a Wall

The music of 1960s blues artist John Coltrane has within it a yearning, the hope to be fully alive in God.

Engaging Leviticus in Conversation with Ephraim Radner

Leviticus makes sense of Jesus, and Jesus makes sense of Leviticus. The interpretive key works in both directions.

Our First Parents

Marriage, sex, child-bearing -- Augustine bequeathed to us a way of understanding continuity and discontinuity with God's original creation.

The Darkness Hideth Not From Thee

Darkness occupies a complicated place in scripture. Believers even wait for it. The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give light, the powers will be shaken, but somewhere within the chaos lies our redemption.

Review: John Gatta’s Green Gospel

John Gatta’s Green Gospel: Foundations of Ecotheology (Church Publishing) is an important and eloquently written contribution to the expanding body of literature addressing faith...

Tending to Flowers

Flower is from the Middle English “flour,” which referred to both the ground grain and the reproductive structure in plants, before splitting off in...

Mountains and Churches

I was born and raised in a Calgary mountain culture that continues to thrive on the edges of the Rocky Mountains and numerous world famous...

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