Faith • Liturgical Reflections Merry Michaelmas Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 4 min read Angels don't often figure into our theologies of work, but perhaps they should. Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections The Word Became Flesh Kami Rice | 4 min read Incarnation. I have been living in southern France for nearly 16 months now, all the while alternately holding and then losing hope that I will one day be fluent in the poetic language of this place. To me, “It sounds better,” is a perfectly appreciable reason for French’s maddening exceptions to its own grammar rules.... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Real Food is Real Work Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 14 min read TWI: To be fully transparent, we should acknowledge that this is our second recorded interview with you, Jessica, after a computer glitch wiped out our last one. Thank you for this generous donation of your time–again! We’ll look at our last conversation as a kind of a rough draft. I suppose it’s a lot like... Continue Reading
Culture Playing God: An Interview with Andy Crouch [Part 2 of 2] Laura Merzig Fabrycky and Adam Joyce | 18 min read Missio continues its conversation with Andy Crouch about his new book, Playing God (IVP, 2013), on the vocation of prophecy, zombie institutions, kenosis, and forgiveness. The first part of this interview can be found here. TWI: Let’s talk about the vocation of prophecy. One integral aspect of how the Old Testament “handles” power was through the... Continue Reading
Culture Playing God: An Interview with Andy Crouch [Part 1 of 2] Laura Merzig Fabrycky and Adam Joyce | 12 min read Andy Crouch, executive editor of Christianity Today, met up with TWI’s Missio in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station to talk about his new book, Playing God, on the morning after giving a talk for The Trinity Forum, followed by a response from syndicated columnist Michael Gerson and questions from the audience. Missio asked Andy how the... 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
