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Jason Byassee
Jason Byassee is senior minister at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church in Toronto.
Deep insights for Christians—from Leviticus
Gary Anderson thinks that the answer to what ails contemporary Christian theology lies tucked away in the Torah’s tabernacle narrative.
A blessedly particular theology of evil
John Swinton writes about the nature of evil without a shred of metaphysical obscurity.
Grace without conquest
Art historian Matthew Milliner has written a groundbreaking history of a beloved icon’s role in imperial Christianity’s collapse.
Back to basics with a Dutch Nazi resistor
K. H. Miskotte wrote a Karl Barth for Dummies in 1941. It offers a bracing challenge today.
Rhymes across time
“Hip-hop is layered prophetically, because you’re tying the past to the present.”
The unexpected gift of missional friendship
I was a United Methodist pastor. He was a campus minister with Cru.
How playwright Tetsuro Shigematsu has transformed my homiletics classes
His advice: be yourself, be underprepared, be weird.
Alexandr Tsypkov’s sacred graffiti
“We began to paint frescoes on the ruins of abandoned churches. We did not ask anyone’s permission.”
The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again
So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?
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