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Loving the Bible, Part 2: Teaching Others to Love Scripture

Editor’s Note: This is the second of two essays on loving scripture. The first is here. Because I did not receive good biblical formation as...

Loving the Bible, Part 1: Learning to Love Scripture

If I may paraphrase Mark Twain: Suppose you grew up in a mainline Protestant church in the United States near the close of the...

A Thicker Constellation of Vocation

It’s become commonplace to talk about vocation. In many ordination processes, the discerner is expected to articulate their vocation to the priesthood. Many college...

Haunting the Father: MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul

I am a latecomer to George MacDonald’s The Diary of an Old Soul. I knew about the Scotsman MacDonald (1824-1905), of course; had read...

Prayer at the Areopagus

Even early risers consider me an early riser. This morning, however, was different. There was no laptop, no dog giving me the evil eye,...

Learning from Our 1919 Pentecostal Moment, Part Two

Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd developed a plan for administrative and financial restructuring, combined with a church-wide push to inform, raise funds, and nurture spiritual growth.

Learning from Our 1919 Pentecostal Moment, Part One

The ads grabbed my attention first. I was scanning a stack of issues of The Living Church from 1919 for our digital archives project,...

Tending to Flowers

Flower is from the Middle English “flour,” which referred to both the ground grain and the reproductive structure in plants, before splitting off in...

Olympics and Authenticity

Like so many other households, my family spent most of our early August nights watching the Olympics. Ritual pervades every aspect of my life,...

Paideia for Preachers: Aristotle, the Sophists, and St. Paul

Editor's Note: This is a continuation of an earlier essay from Jon Jordan. “No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that...

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