Missional Congregations for a New Moral Landscape
The revivalistic style of evangelism originally popularized in the United States during the Second Great Awakening is no longer effective in much of North America. […]
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“Me, I Do Wed”
Erika Anderson slowly made her way down the makeshift aisle atop an apartment building on an overcast, windswept summer evening in New York City, with […]
A Reflection on a Psalm Integrating Worship and Work
Psalm 9:7-10 The Lord reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment. He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity. […]
From Tech Critique to Ways of Living: Neil Postman was right. So what?
In his article, “From Tech Critique to Ways of Living,” Alan Jacobs writes that a number of authors have written some cogent descriptions of menace […]
Fear
The Virus has made it clear: Fear rules our lives inordinately. A friend related how, after months of isolation, she ventured out to a special-occasion […]
Trusting Scientists in the Covid Pandemic
The Covid pandemic is a social transformation unparalleled in my lifetime – and I am not a young man. It appears to be a perfect […]
Corona Hermeneutics 1: Follow the Science?
Follow the Science has become the standard phrase among politicians and administrators for justifying ever stricter measures to fight the corona pandemic. Most people readily […]
Teaching and Learning Moral Theology
Asked what I do for a living generates a moment of existential dread as I ponder how I should answer. I teach moral theology but […]
Fixing the Jericho Road
As a bioethicist, much of my work has shifted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Perhaps more than anything else, it has got me thinking about how […]
Living Life Forward
Sam Waxforth, the main character in Christopher Beha’s recent novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, is a tech-savvy young man who crunches numbers in order to […]