Vocation • On Daily Work Working For a Bad Boss Rev. Dr. Ryan Laughlin | 9 min read Who was the worst boss you ever had? I suspect a name and a face come quickly to mind. In fact, bad leaders are easy to remember. While some of us might be good at remembering the good in others, it’s remembering the bad that comes all too easy. We remember how much it hurt... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections The Psalter: An Epic Poem of New Creation Dr. Nicholas G. Piotrowski | 19 min read Every Christian loves the Psalms. Even those who do not particularly like poetry, or have the patience to grapple with it, still find moments in the Psalms that resonate within their soul. Who can deny the emboldening tenure of Psalm 23? “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections Reweaving Shalom: An Interview with Author Hugh Whelchel Rev. Joe Palekas | 13 min read Things are not the way they are supposed to be – COVID, racial injustice, political division. The list goes on. Does the very fact that everyone agrees things should be different mean anything? Hugh Whelchel thinks so. Our recognition that things are not as they ought to be points us to a deeper reality –... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections The Promise and Perils of Faith, Vocation, and Culture: Part II – Suffering for Changing the World Dr. Bruce Lowe | 8 min read The New Testament’s Crooked Narrative Arc: In Part I last week, I began by noting that the New Testament is not entirely straightforward when it comes to the subject of faith, vocation and culture. Revelation says that in a certain era — the era in which actual Christians lived — there was a situation where... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Culture is Upstream from Politics: 50 Responses Dr. Steven Garber | 56 min read Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in November of 2016. When I was a boy, my grandfather and I spent summers buying cattle throughout Colorado. Mostly of course, he was the buyer, but there were moments when, with a certain twinkle in his eye, he would let me be the bidder, nudging me to... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections Shadow and Light Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Shadow and light. Watching the mysterious interplay between the sky and the grass, the trees and the flowers, I found myself thinking about the way shadow and light makes its way through life for every one of us. We live amidst both glories and ruins, all day long having to make sense of the very... Continue Reading
