Cabe Matthews

Hope and Peace and a Dragon

Cabe Matthews suggests that the Christmas story is not about placid babies in the hay but about slaying a dragon.

Keith R. Anderson

A Life In The Same Direction: A Review of Eugene Peterson’s The Pastor

Pastoral memoirs are not a genre in great demand. They don’t tend to make it to the New York Times Best Sellers list. After all, the pastoral vocation, some say, has fallen on hard times and Christian pastors writing about spirituality seem to have lost their influence in the marketplace of ideas. But there is […]

Aaron Darrisaw

No Marriage Without Judgment – The Hangover Part II

The ballyhooed and much anticipated comedy, The Hangover Part II, was released in theaters across the country this week.  Just as the first film, the movie is backdropped with a pending wedding, which sets the constant tension in the film, as the frenzied (and exaggerated) situations of the “wolfpack” threaten to ruin the wedding. This time, […]

Halden Doerge

The Singularity of Jesus and the Mission of the Church: An Interview with Nathan R. Kerr

In this interview, Nathan R. Kerr reflects on some of the conversations that have emerged in the last two years since the release of his book Christ, History, and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission. In particular, he explores the connections between Christology, the nature and task of theology, and the mission of the church in […]

Jessie van Eerden

Seamless

In this lyrical essay, Jessie van Eerden reflects on her upbringing in a rural West Virginia church and wonders “if the words of our childhood faith-lives—words like worship, praise, holiness—have any real clout for us when we really stare them in the face as adults and when, out of the corner of our eyes, we see more and more brokenness in the world.”