The stories we tell about ourselves and our faith are important, says Chelle Stearns, and in this essay she looks at how our athletic culture informs those stories. Taking her cue from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Stearns searches for a middle ground in our faith and Christology between the heroism of warriors and the heroism of healers.
Writer Jeanne Murray Walker offers a mediation on leaving church and finding fellowship and peace at Produce Junction.
One Time: A few years before we had our daughter, my wife and I were walking in the hills of Caracalla just south of Rome. About halfway through this quiet suburban park we encountered an old sheep that had recently died about five yards from the path. Several of its friends were trying to nuzzle it […]
In Monroe, GA, dozens of churchgoers of Solid Rock Ministries fell sick after a potluck dinner. (Please, make sure you click on the link and watch the video–mere words fail to do justice.) One participant said that people were “dropping like flies.” It was so bad that 24 church members were treated at the hospital, […]
Greg Boyd, PhD (Princeton) is Senior Pastor of Woodland Hills Church and is the author of such fine gems including, The Myth of a Christian Nation, Letters from a Skeptic, and Repenting of Religion. His greatest piece of writing, however, is probably his flattering and completely non-hyperbolic endorsement of my recent book, Third Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the […]
Brian Bork writes about the ways that America’s post 9/11 “patriotism” surfaced in cheap country pop, and how the artistry of Springsteen’s “The Rising” captured the real heart and soul of a mourning nation.
My mother’s daily mantra of parental cautions included “Try not to touch your face” and, after any stroll through a public place, “Wash your hands.” She had good reason. I’ve always been very susceptible to the common cold and the flu; daily multivitamins aren’t enough to shield me. As a kid, I must have missed […]
While the closing of the Border’s chain of bookstores can hardly be considered a recent development, the final reckoning looms large on the horizon for the last few stores. I have personally witnessed several stores closing throughout this year. Most recently this past weekend. If people are arguing that books are dead, they were not […]
The tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” turns on the question of how to see the emperor: is he clothed in garments befitting someone of his noble station, or is he parading in nothing more than his birthday suit, exposed as vain and conceited? Likewise, Peter Leithart’s Defending Constantine turns on the question of how […]
