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...
A sacramental understanding of the world is simply a shorthand way of describing the psalmist’s claim that The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it (Ps. 24:1)...
Worship is not primarily a venue for innovative creativity but a place for discerning reception and faithful repetition. That
Too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.
Too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.5
The postmodern critique is not aimed at metanarratives because they are really grounded in narratives; on the contrary, the problem with metanarratives is that they do not own up to their own mythic g...
So too we extend mutual greetings because God has welcomed us.
Baptism signifies a radical reordering of the social world in Christ precisely because it signifies that the priesthood is open to all
You won’t be liberated from deformation by new information. God doesn’t deliver us from the deformative habit-forming power of tactile rival liturgies by merely giving us a book. Instead,
You can’t just think your way to new hungers. While Pollan and Berry may have successfully recruited my intellect, their books couldn’t change my habits. Such rehabituation was going to require a whol...
You can't think your way into new hungers.
Worship your intellect, being seen as smart—you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
Worship is the arena in which God recalibrates our hearts, reforms our desires, and rehabituates our loves. Worship isn’t just something we do; it is where God does something to us. Worship is the hea...
What makes them religious is not just that they are informed by beliefs and worldviews but that they have formative pretensions that are nothing short of liturgical. It shouldn’t be surprising when an...
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect? And what if this had as much to do with our bodies as with our minds?
We often hear of brand loyalty, even brand devotion. But do people really worship brands? Is consumerism really such a liturgical experience? It may not be as far fetched as you think. In a recent stu...
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 aren’t really motivated by abstract ideas or pushed by rules and duties. Instead some panoramic tableau of what looks like flourishing has an alluring power that attracts
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...
Thus each household and family does well to take an audit of its daily routines, looking at them through a liturgical lens. What Story is carried in those rhythms? What vision of the good life is carr...