The announcement of the law reminds us that we inhabit not nature, but creation, fashioned by a Creator, and that there is a certain grain to the universe—grooves and tracks and norms that are part of...
Subtraction stories Accounts that explain the secular as merely the subtraction of religious belief, as if the secular is what’s left over after we subtract superstition. In contrast, Taylor emphasize...
So we have a twofold challenge to the social task of forging life in common: the deep, confessional diversity that shapes how we think about a life well lived and the norms for a good society; and the...
Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is incredulity toward metanarratives is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to recover (a) the narrative character of Christian faith,...
It is because we are God’s ambassadors and image bearers, charged with caring for creation, that we bring to him the concerns of creation, praying for each other, for the church, and for the world at...
Indeed, the for a Christian Christ: Jesus Christ is the very embodiment of what we're made for, of the end to which we are called....and how does this happen? By being regularly immersed in the dram...
In the action of gathering, there is a visceral training of our imagination that shapes how we subsequently think about our identity and our calling as human, in relation to God and in relation to oth...
Formative Christian worship paints a picture of the beauty of the Lord--and a vision of the he desires for creation--in a way that captures our imagination....The biblical vision of --of a world wher...
Derrida. Deconstruction’s claim that there is nothing outside the text [il n’y a pas de hors-texte] can be considered a radical translation of the Reformation principle sola scrip-tura. In particular,...
We are witnessing to the fact that God’s action in the cross and resurrection has made it possible for humanity to be human, to take up their creational vocation
Often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.
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...
We need to think further about how a Christian understanding of human persons should also shape how we teach, not just what we teach.
We (allegedly) haven’t imposed a normative vision of human social arrangements except the maxim Be autonomous. The result? Erosion of family stability (especially for the poor) and widening inequality...
Too many readers regularly overestimate Augustine’s affirmation here and seem to regularly ignore his persistent affirmation that justice is found where God, the one supreme God, rules an obedient Cit...
Through his embedded experience in the Montgomery bus boycotts, Reverend King came to see the limits of Niebuhr’s abstract public theologizing. Abstractions cannot empower acts of compassion and sacri...
Third, following from this, the liturgical practice of the offering indicates that Christian worship—which is a foretaste of the new creation—embodies a new economy, an alternative economy.
There is a specter haunting our secular age, the spectre of meaninglessness (p. 717) — which is, in a sense, a dispatch from fullness. And because this won’t go away, but rather keeps pressing and pul...
The place we unconsciously strive toward is what ancient philosophers of habit called our --our goal, our end. But the we live toward is not something we primarily know or believe or think about; rat...
Rather, the offering is an expression of gratitude. It is a symbolic but concrete indication that the commerce between God and humanity is not a contract but a covenant, which traffics not in commodit...