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Book Review: “What Still Divides Us”
What Still Divides Us: The Differences Between Protestants and Roman Catholics. By Josh Maloney. San Diego: Sola Media, 2025. 74 pp. Free Ministry Resource (paperback). When I first started listening to podcasts about a decade ago, The White Horse Inn was already a longtime veteran in Christian digital media. As described by their website, their…
Palm Sunday at the Pentecostal Church
After Richard Crashaw. Balaam’s donkey spoke but the Lord’s did not— And now I tell ya, I wandered long about that there, Pastor said, and this, his lips popped, is what I got. He pondered the difference, talked billy and mare, Then he stopped. His tongue clicked against his front teeth hard. Hardly looking for…
Images of the Christian Town
I was finally able to fulfill a longtime dream of mine to visit Germany. Bavaria, in particular. Me and my travel companions, of course, visited Neuschwanstein castle like the tourists we are, and then the small town of Fussen not far from it. As we walked around the old town, a time capsule of an…
War: Pagan and Christian
The repentance of Theodosius I is one of the most treasured moments in Church history. The emperor’s humble obeisance, stripped of his finery, humiliated before the bishop is an icon of the church’s claims on the state. Less well remembered was Theodosius’ sin: the summary execution of some 7,000 Thessalonian attendees at the local circus…
Book Review: “The Toxic War on Masculinity”
The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. By Nancy R. Pearcey. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2023. 352 pp. $26.99 (hardcover). In Nancy Pearcey’s latest offering, The Toxic War on Masculinity, she takes on a subject ripe for cultural commentary: the attack on men in contemporary society. With her characteristic wit and rhetorical…
The Abiding Blessing of Sabbath Rest
The Book of Exodus tells the story of God’s deliverance of His people out of bondage in Egypt and God’s deliverance of His law to those people through the mediatorship of Moses. These twin themes in Exodus are closely bound together showing that Israel was not only saved from a life of slavery but were…
The Surrender of Catechesis to Technology
Introduction On March 11, 1997, Neil Postman delivered a lecture to an Illinois community college entitled “The Surrender of Culture to Technology,” in which he presented seven questions that should be asked when confronted with new technologies. Public debate at the time centered around the installation of public-school computers with access to the emerging “world…
“Lightning” the Way – The Third Sunday of Lent
Rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee; let the water and the blood from thy wounded side which flowed, be of sin the double cure, cleanse me from its guilt and power. A strange thing happened Saturday evening. My gaze was fixed upon the stars and my back was warmed…
Almost Atonement & The Wood Between the Worlds
Some years ago, self-deprecating comedian Martin Short joked with talk show host Conan O’Brien that his family would write the word “Almost” on his tombstone.[1] “Almost” because he had, in his mind, never quite fully made it in Hollywood with a smash hit. While it’s hardly true of Short, that’s the line that kept ringing…
“Reformation Anglicanism”: A Critique
Among the many voices calling for Anglican realignment, one of the more resounding is that of the Reformation Anglicans. Reformation Anglicans aspire to anchor the Anglican tradition in its Reformation roots and principles, and, in doing so, resolve the current tensions and paradoxes involved in the question of Anglican identity, as well as provide a…
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