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Time to Load Up on E-Books
If nothing else, this is a wonderful time for all of us to catch up on our reading. To that end, let me encourage you to check out the April e-book sale at Eerdmans, which has discounted 300+ titles to...
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“Generous, Humble, and Free”: A Pietist Vision for the Church
It was a year ago now that the annual meeting of my home denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Church, voted to oust First Covenant Church of Minneapolis, its senior pastor, and another ordained...
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That Was The Week That Was
This week I learned about a pagan, white supremacist movement that is rededicating a church in Minnesota and looked at how Bethel and its peers scored on a financial stress test. Elsewhere: • Bethel...
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The With-God Life: Song of Songs
A couple of rules I live my life by: Use the lectionary as an opportunity to read scriptures that are easy to skip over.Don’t embarrass myself or anyone else by writing about sex. Normally, these two...
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That Was The Week That Was
Apart from announcing my first Lindbergh book talk (Zoom-ing your way on March 18th), things were quiet here as I worked on the index for that book. I’ll look to blog more in March. Meanwhile, here’s...
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That Was The Week That Was
This week I wrestled with the question of whether Christian college professors like are also Christian “ministers,” I looked into the religious history of March Madness, and I recalled some of my...
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That Was The Week That Was
This week I published a book (thanks to a lot of work by a lot of other people), battled the impostor syndrome, and explained what I think the “applied humanities” are. Elsewhere: • I don’t know what...
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That Was The Week That Was
This week: I learned how Latter-day Saints follow Jesus and checked in on the most popular posts so far this year at The Anxious Bench. (I also flew home after a week in Germany — more on that next...
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Why, More Than Ever, Christian Colleges Need to Inhabit the “Messy Middle”
Earlier this month the Christian Reformed Church concluded a six-year debate on human sexuality by voting not only to uphold its traditional view that sex is reserved to man-woman marriage, but to...
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Tuesday’s Podcast: The Political History of the World Cup
It’s been a while since I’ve (a) posted here as opposed to Substack or (b) recorded a new podcast. So today I’m happy to announce the premiere of a three-episode run of The 252, the podcast about the...
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