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What Is Advent For?

Then they will see “the Son of Man coming in a cloud” with power and great glory. - Luke 21:27 In Advent, the preacher faces the...

A Thicker Constellation of Vocation

It’s become commonplace to talk about vocation. In many ordination processes, the discerner is expected to articulate their vocation to the priesthood. Many college...

Taking Ourselves Too Seriously

In The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (2013), Nina Munk offers a sympathetic yet critical review of the Millenium Villages...

Technique, or the Radical Beauty of the Impractical

In my living room sits an incredibly gaudy computer setup. It stands a solid two and half feet, with a glass panel to see...

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

Tobacco use was once so prevalent and socially acceptable that we could hardly imagine a world without it. Now it’s by and large exiled...

Artificial Intelligence: Coming Soon to a Church Near You!

By Nicholas Knisely and Kirk Smith A.I., or Artificial Intelligence, is a topic we are hearing much about recently. Television specials tout its promises and...

Branding Jesus

Church attendance is in decline. This has given birth to many articles and think pieces exploring why churches are shrinking, and has prompted many...

On Shared Humanity and Diverse Religion: Notes from Egypt

By Jeff Boldt My wife and I recently moved our four kids to Egypt, where I now work for the bishop in the Alexandria School...

For Such a Time as This

Esther 3:1-5:8 By Hannah Matis If thrillers, even when unrealistic, give you a sense of what people are afraid of in contemporary society, romance novels can...

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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