Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NIV
But one of the dangers of eagerly diving in to the political sphere is that it tends to underestimate the strength of the currents already swirling around in that sphere. In other words, such Pylesque...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry captures this well: If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immen...
And when our songs attribute the action of worship to us (Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down . . .), then worship is understood as fundamentally an expression of human will, a Pelagian endeav...
Acknowledging the interpreted status of the gospel should translate into a certain humility in our public theology. It should not, however, translate into skepticism about the truth of the Christian c...
What does it look like to bear witness in a secular age? What does it look like to be faithful? To what extent have Christians unwittingly absorbed the tendencies of this world? On the one hand, this...
We should emphasize that the narrative of Scripture is a primary fund for the Christian imagination.
There are no box seats at this table, no reservations for VIPs, no filet mignon for those who can afford it while the rest eat crumbs from their table. The Lord’s Table is a leveling reality in a worl...
The end of Christian education has been seen to be the dissemination and communication of Christian ideas rather than the formation of a peculiar people.
Singing is a full-bodied action that activates the whole person—or at least more of the whole person than is affected by merely sitting and passively listening, or even reading and reciting texts.
Analysis of the story will sometimes undercut our antepredicative grasp of it).
You might have Bible verses on the wall in every room of the house and yet the unspoken rituals reinforce self-centeredness rather than sacrifice. Thus
With hands raised, the minister extends God’s welcome and blessing to the gathered congregation, who may receive the welcome and blessing with hands open in a spirit of mutual welcome and expectation.
When we gather, we are responding to a call to worship; that call is an echo and renewal of the call of creation to be God’s image bearers for the world, and we fulfill the mission of being God’s imag...
What if education wasn’t first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?
Those evangelicals who have been raised and shaped by forms of Christianity that are roughly fundamentalist will either: a. become taken with the modern moral order and thus sort of replay the excarna...
Third, the recitation of the Creed is the I believe moment in Christian worship.
Things which are not in their intended position are restless. Once they are in their ordered position, they are at rest.9
The state isn’t just the guardian of rights; it is also a nexus of rites that are bent on shaping what is most fundamental: my loves. The state doesn’t just ask me to make a decision; it asks me to pl...
The music moves us very strongly, because it is moved, as it were; it captures, expresses, incarnates being profoundly moved. (Think of Beethoven quartets.) But what at? What is the object? Is there a...