A theology professor and ordained Anglican in New Zealand writes about functionally joining a big Baptist church close to home for the sake of his family. Marked by vulnerability, this essay describes how he submits himself and his family to a healthy and life-giving Christian community -- and perhaps not entirely despite his priesthood.
We're continuing our series on Natality. In a time when loneliness and isolation are rampant, Sarah Puryear writes, the church needs to lean more into its identity as a community of support and formation, relationships that foster life in Christ.
Continuing our series on Natality, Hannah Lucas reminds us of the prayer life of the monk-scholar Bede, and along the way shows how in the west today we have kicked down a good number of load-bearing walls, those theological and philosophical convictions that structure an authentically Christian vision. But there is hope!
I was raised a Mennonite, an old Reformation church rooted in certain European traditions. My parents, likewise, were both brought up  in the Church,...
Editor's Note: This essay is part of a series on Natality, a conversation about child-bearing, family life, birth rates, and the presence or absence...
We're continuing our Natality series. Nestorius, David Ney writes, was the heresiarch of anti-natalism. He refused to accept a little child as his God. Christ himself was born as a consequence of God’s decision to make Mary fruitful and to make many other ancestors fruitful, including Eve, whom he married to Adam. It is a risk for men and women to be so open.
We are called to love our neighbor as ourselves. In practice, we will get this wrong if we love ourselves inadequately, or excessively, or inordinately..
