Kate Bowler writes of a life with stage four cancer and her encounters with a strand of Christianity that has confused the eternal biblical promises of the Gospel with variations of contemporary prosperity. If you attend a church tomorrow I how you will hear the good news, not be told Jesus died and rose so …
Love Big, Be Well is Winn Collier’s fictional account of rural ministry. Here he puts the question a country church puts to prospective pastors. Do they love a program, or people? At its best the answer is not either/or. Love for pastoring people is the engine, though. We’d like to know if you’re going to …
This was among some new acquisitions that turned up today. The three volumes are subtitled: Worship, Worldview and Cultural Formation; How Worship Works; and Reforming Public Theology.
Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead writes about the influence that the Bible has had on Western literature. The Bible asks questions, raises issues, and proposes truths about ultimate destinies that culture has engaged with in various ways. To be unaware of that link is to only hear half a conversation. “The Bible is the model …
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