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Dec 10, 2012 Essay

On the Role of Art Museums

Among people working in the art museum field, there is a pervasive and lingering philosophical wrestling match between what was, what could be, and what ought to be.

Dec 5, 2012 Essay The story

Redemption

(Originally published March 2010:) The Word became flesh, not to save our souls from this fallen world, but in order to restore us as lovers of this world.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

Reading the Bible . . . and Longing to Know

The Bible is a doorway to a person, an invitation waiting to be sent. When we read it obediently and expectantly, like an actor, we find gracious and surprising self-disclosure.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

Reading the Bible Like a Grown-Up Child

Reading the Bible’s not easy. You must do it believing expectantly, on your knees.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

Editorial: The Word of God and the City of Man

The Bible has done its proper work when it produces a certain kind of person.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

Can There Be an Evangelical Political Theology?

The church’s life together is the soil from which political theology springs.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

Politics Without Scripts

A vision of politics in which Christianity and liberalism have both been disestablished.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

The Bible and Cultural Discipleship

Fallen, but created: this world is not unsalvageable.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

Scripture is Not Our Dog

Unless we heedfully consider both the Scripture’s content and form, we run the risk of making God’s revelation into a pet: loved but powerless.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

The Book of Books: What Literature Owes the Bible

Literature puts flesh on Scripture and doctrine, and tests them by means of dramatic imagination.