Second, singing is a mode of expression that seems to reside in our imagination more than other forms of discourse.
It's not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly express these (cognitive) beliefs; rather, we begin with worship, and articulated beliefs bubble...
In other words, codes are inadequate as moral sources precisely because they do not touch on the dynamics of moral motivation.
Habitus, then, is a kind of compatibilism. As a social being acting in the world, I’m not an unconstrained free creature without inertia; neither am I the passive victim of external causes and determi...
What we sing says something significant about who we are—and whose we are.
The Creator in whom we find our rest is only all too eager to welcome us into communion.
We have already seen how modernity does away with higher times, leaving us to the merely chronological tick-tock of secular time. However, our own experience suggests that the unstoppable homogeneity...
So the emergence of art as Art creates room to expand unbelief; unbelief has somewhere to go without settling for the mechanism of a completely flattened universe but also without returning to a tradi...
Our sanctification is more like a Weight Watchers program than listening to a book on tape.
Our age makes higher demands of solidarity and benevolence on people today than ever before. Never before have people been asked to stretch out so far, and so consistently, so systematically, so as a...
Mark Hamilton is surely right when he points out that we allow athletics to dictate to us what school districts we will live in, what jobs to hold, how to spend our leisure time, whom we marry, what a...
Instead of the bottom-up emphasis on worship as our expression of devotion and praise, historic Christian worship is rooted in the conviction that God is the primary actor or agent in the worship enco...
Foucault. The seemingly disturbing, even Nietzschean claim that power is knowledge should push us to realize what MTV learned long ago: (a) the cultural power of formation and discipline, and hence (b...
So too we extend mutual greetings because God has welcomed us. As recipients of God’s greeting, we become imitators of God by extending welcome to our neighbors and brothers and sisters.
Like the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, baptism is a microcosm of the entirety of Christian worship and the story of God, in Christ, reconciling the world to himself.
Learning what seems insignificant can be training us for (and about) what’s essential—that what’s ultimate can unwittingly be at stake in what appears to be innocuous.
Education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that inculcates a particular vision of the good life by inscribing or infusing that vision into the heart (the gut) by means of...
Classical apologetics operates with a very modern notion of reason; presuppositional apologetics, on the other hand, is postmodern (and Augustinian!) insofar as it recognizes the role of presuppositio...
Worship isn’t political only to the extent that it can be marshaled and invoked in contemporary partisan debates; it is always already political insofar as liturgy is the rite of citizens of the heave...
Worship again and again interrupts the course of the world. Through worship the Christian community testifies that the world is not on its own. And this also means that it is not kept alive by politic...