Can You Only Follow Jesus to the Altar if you Speak in Tongues?
Terry Todd’s understanding of the Pentecostal altar as “the space where Pentecostals learn what it means to follow Jesus through encountering the empowering…
Do Latter-Day Saints Get Any Help in Following Jesus?
The reflections of Robert Millet about the Latter-Day Saints’ (LDS) vision of the Christian life are thoughtful and helpful. I have always been…
What Would it Take for Lutherans to Become Better Partners with the Black Church?
Serving the Black church for three decades in its largest accredited seminary in the States, I’ve been asking this question of friends, colleagues,…
How Do You Best Love Those Who Don’t Fulfill Expectations? Can Methodists Endorse the Lutheran Answer as Appropriate?
I was tempted to sing the Paul Simon hit again about the mother and child reunion in response to this fine piece of…
Perhaps the Mother and Child Reunion is Only a Couple Clarifications Away
To paraphrase the 1972 Paul Simon hit: Now I would not give you false hope, on these great and mournful [Lenten] days. But…
Can Born-Again, Repentant, Freedom-Loving Lutherans Be Regarded As Companions On a Baptist Way To Jesus?
Lutherans tend to have innate suspicions of Baptists, second only to our historic hang-ups with Pentecostals. Of course this is a function of…
Doesn’t Grace Compel Us to Traverse the Reformed Path of Following Jesus?
When a Lutheran like me dialogues with a Reformed theologian like Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, at least to this Lutheran it feels like a conversation…
The Joys of Being Found by Jesus in Liturgy and Heritage: A Lutheran – Episcopal Celebration
Randall Balmer’s compelling story of finding Jesus in the cadences of the historic liturgy and the Presence of Christ in the Church’s Sacramental life was…
Can Lutheran Dialectical Thinking and Living Counter-Culturally be Considered an Appropriate Gospel Witness by Anabaptists?
What led me to fall in love with God, Christian faith, and the church of my youth was the awareness that ours is…
Is Spontaneity and Freedom from the Law a Legitimate Option in the Church Catholic?
IS SPONTANEITY AND FREEDOM FROM THE LAW A LEGITIMATE OPTION IN THE CHURCH CATHOLIC? I really appreciated the dialogue with all my partners…