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Jan 11, 2012 Uncategorized

Sweet Spots in the Faith-Political Interface

This is the sweet spot-the messy, incremental, critical reality of public dialogue.

Jan 9, 2012 Uncategorized

Thinkers Outside the Box

Two recent volumes, by Paul Foster (ed.) and Pope Benedict XVI, help us remember that some thinkers do not fit into neat and tidy categories of scientific method, nor even of traditional Christian forms of theology.

Jan 4, 2012 Uncategorized

Confronting the Challenge of Xenophobia

For Europeans, xenophobia is an appalling plight that presents a brilliant opportunity for the European church: to be a relevant, leading voice in postmodern Europe.

Dec 30, 2011 Uncategorized

The Postpartum Transformation

Up All Night is at its best when it is focused on this postpartum transformation: from our carefully cultivated identities before children to the reality that we are actually just managing intrusive chaos.

Dec 28, 2011 Uncategorized

Literacy Matters—In Church

Why churches have important roles to play as literacy sponsors for teens.

Dec 26, 2011 Uncategorized

Reconnecting Work and Church

A renewed emphasis on what I call “vocational stewardship” could go far in wooing the exiles and the nomads back.

Dec 23, 2011 Uncategorized

Life-Long Learners 12.0

Twelfth in an expert series of must-read books.

Dec 21, 2011 Uncategorized

God(s): A User’s Guide

The exhibit rightly conveys that religion takes practice, not merely observation. But does it “use” God towards other ends—human sociality, the aesthetics of ritual, inexhaustible discourse?

Dec 19, 2011 Uncategorized

Whoever Welcomes this Child

It is in receiving and welcoming a particular child—not necessarily the one we imagine and not necessarily our own—that we welcome God and his hand in our life.

Dec 14, 2011 Uncategorized

The Marginalization of Evangelical Scholarship (Among Evangelicals)

Not since the nineteenth century has evangelicalism reached such a large academic audience. Despite this growing influence, there is one place where Christian scholarship has often failed to penetrate: the evangelical grassroots.

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