A Pentecostal Theater Large Enough for This Marriage
If I dare put it this way, I’m grateful to J. Terry Todd for offering, in “Following Jesus to the Altar: One Pentecostal’s Reflection,”…
Pondering Across Two Traditions Both Shadowed and Hallowed
Robert Millet’s winsome portrayal of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints took me first back to my growing-up years. As has been…
Jesus as Social Revolutionary: Engaging Farris Blount’s Prophetic Invitation
Thank you, Farris Blount, for an accessible yet multi-layered overview of the Black Church in A Tale of Many Options: Following Jesus in the…
Celebrating Wesleyan Treasures and Rooting for United Methodists to Continue Offering Them
Reading Sarah Lancaster’s insightful overview of Wesleyanism and keeping in mind its United Methodist denominational expressions took me back to when it was my…
Stirred by Tender Pietism
In his stirring rendition of “A Week in the Life of a Pietist,” Christopher Gehrz illumined for me the reality that a fair amount…
Feeding the Hunger He Couldn’t Name
What a poignant, moving story of pursuing something he doesn’t know how to name David Gushee offers us in “One Account of a Baptist…
Collaborating with Grace, the Gift from Beyond
It’s interesting to note that Wesley Granberg-Michaelson joins the significant number of “Respectful Conversation” partners reporting having made some sort of journey beyond or…
Drawn with Balmer and Episcopalianism Toward That Enchanted Universe
Reading Randall Balmer’s post on why he left evangelicalism to become Episcopalian reminded me that way back when, as a young Christian committed to…
Grateful to Respondents for Bringing Bones to Life
Summaries, as I found when delineating five values in “Amid Complexities, Five Things Many Anabaptist-Mennonites Emphasize,” leave unsettling numbers of things unsaid. So I’m…
Amid Complexities, Five Things Many Anabaptist-Mennonites Emphasize
Yes, I will summarize five Anabaptist-Mennonite emphases. But I don’t dare try before addressing complexities of doing so when so many groups stress so…