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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...

The Real ‘Great Divide’

By Charlie Clauss In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn tells the story of the Soviet gulag. He sprinkles in pieces of autobiography: while an officer...

To Tremble With Glee

By Christopher Yoder The Cherry Tree Carol has roots in medieval mystery plays and, ultimately, an apocryphal story about the journey of Mary and Joseph...

Called to Be Countercultural?

By Charlie Clauss With the Baby Boomer generation aging, it is a good time to consider the ideas behind counterculturalism. A term coined in 1960,...

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