Faith • Liturgical Reflections Love, Liturgy and the Architecture of Time Thomas Hinson | 6 min read My conversion was sudden, but not altogether surprising. The efforts of friends to evangelize me had planted seeds, kindling questions demanding answers. “Could I really trust this?” “Would it really... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations An Appeal for Cultural Humility Jody Wiley Fernando | 6 min read In the wake of a Facebook post that offended many Asian American believers, Jody Wiley Fernando asks whether American majority culture evangelicals can gain not more finely tuned cultural competencies, but rather adopt a posture of cultural humility. Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song? John Lamb | 3 min read In 587 B.C. the exiled Hebrew nation sat on the banks of the Euphrates River singing this lament: “By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Proximate Justice, Again and Again Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Making peace with proximate justice? Several years ago I was asked by a magazine editor to write an essay on the vocation of politics. I thought about it over a... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations An Interview with Five Iron Frenzy’s Micah Ortega Adam Thies | 5 min read Five Iron Frenzy spent eight years making music and capturing the hearts and minds of Christian outsiders: those who felt they didn’t fit with the status quo of their church... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Exegete Your Failures Adam Joyce | 3 min read “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” –Samuel Beckett I have heard the end of this quote bandied about as an axiom recently, “Fail better.”... Continue Reading