Take & Read: Theology
New books addressing theological challenges
Is this how to be an anti-racist?
Jonathan Tran takes “identitarian anti-racism” to task.
Take & Read: Theology
Five new books that address today’s theological challenges
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
Why be Protestant?
Phillip Cary locates the heart of Protestantism in the gospel promise it reveals.
David Bentley Hart’s polemic against the alleged doctrine of eternal hell
Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.
Politics, parenting, and other secular things we put our faith in
We’re religious about lots of things, says David Zahl. Just not God.
Take & read: New books in theology
To speak words of grace, we must first name the powers and principalities that hold us captive.
Disability and the good life
Theologian Shane Clifton rethinks virtue ethics from his wheelchair.
Easter is not good news without the cross
The shock of Easter isn’t just the empty grave. It’s that God comes back from death and doesn’t condemn the unrighteous ones who put him there.
Taking the Bible seriously means reading it figurally
What scripture means is not reducible to what it once meant.
Prayer isn’t our work, it’s God’s
I mostly agree with Jeffrey Weiss about prayer. I think St. Paul would too.
Prayer works—but not in the way so many suppose
I'm facing terminal cancer and receiving the prayers of many. Beyond the implicit problems, I've found ways to see what it means to ask God for healing.