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“I have decided not to go to seminary,” the young woman said. “I was deceived: God does not call women into ministry. I am so thankful to my pastor for showing me this, because if I had gone into ministry, I would have been blaspheming God.…
Nov/01/2005
How often seminary students and graduates comment to me about how unprepared they feel to address the bioethics issues they are encountering today. They often do not use the word bioethics, but the life-or-death, sickness-or-health challeng…
Nov/01/2005
The importance of the Lord’s Supper for early Methodists can hardly be understated. Not only did the spiritual discipline of the Wesleyan societies commit them to receive it and Wesley’s teaching urged them to do so as often as possible, bu…
Nov/01/2005
John Wesley believed that Christianity was a social religion. In his own words, he articulated that “to turn [it] into a solitary religion is indeed to destroy it…. When I say [it] is essentially a social religion, I mean not only that it c…
Apr/01/2005
“Jesus Christ is the hope of the world!” We have heard this confession before, and would probably give easy assent to it. But what does it really mean, or cost us, to make such a claim in a world where hope often denotes little else than wi…
Apr/01/2005
By all practical measures, if you were to evaluate my ministry at Grace Church, I would grade out pretty well. In most areas of ministry, things were on the increase. In five years, consider the common measure of “nickels and noses.” Our we…
Apr/01/2005
David Brooks, in On Paradise Drive (Simon and Schuster, 2004), describes Americans as driven toward achieving a wide range of future goals in education, hobbies, and work. They exert enormous energy and self-discipline to attain their goals…
Apr/01/2005
In his recent book, On Paradise Drive (Simon & Schuster, 2004), D. Brooks makes an important observation about American higher education. Contemporary society encourages commitment to high achievement, and at its best produces young peo…
Mar/01/2005
Andrew F. Walls is one of the most important interpreters of Christianity and its missionary role in our time. His understanding of the church’s transformation from Christendom to world Christianity cuts across disciplines of history, theol…
Mar/01/2005
The whole history of Christianity, and the history of the world, would have followed a different course if it had not been that again and again the theology of the cross became a theology of glory, and that the church of the cross became a …
Mar/01/2005
Several years ago a pastor and former D.Min. student—having explored the topic of biblical formation for congregations challenged by our postmodern and postChristendom context—contacted me. While in the process of interviewing for a pastora…
Mar/01/2005
“Bit by experimental bit,” writes philosopher P. Churchland, “neuroscience is morphing our conception of what we are” (Brain-Wise [MIT, 2002] 2). For many, this includes dispensing with the “soul” in favor of biologically anchored processes…
Feb/01/2005
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