The Advent of New Creation
Jesus’ resurrection was the dawn of New Creation in power. Yet we see signs of new-creation power already in Jesus’ incarnation, life and ministry,...
Jonathan Edwards: Shadows or Realities?
I’m reading a remarkable little book, Images or Shadows of Divine Things, by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). It was edited by the noted Harvard historian...
Is History Linear or Cyclical?
It is not accurate to say the Bible gives us a linear, not cyclical, worldview or view of history. Scripture combines both.
God’s redemptive revelation...
2020 Is Here
Twenty-five years ago, some futurists foresaw a major global crisis arriving in about the year 2020.
In 1995 I published EarthCurrents: The Struggle for the...
What Pocahontas Found in Heaven
Most people these days know something about Pocahontas. Some even know the true story of her conversion to Christianity, and perhaps of the catechetical...
Immanuel!
Gold leaves of autumn
New buds in spring
Summer’s warm magic
Winter’s cold ring—
Coming and going
Time’s rise and fall
Years building ages
Time touching all—
So our lives mingle
So our...
Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Economics
The paperback edition of The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology has just been released by Oxford University Press (524 pp.). The original hardback was...
Let’s (Txt?) Talk: Reclaiming Conversation
Perhaps you heard them discussing it on the radio: MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle’s new book, Reclaiming Conversation (Penguin, 2015, 436 pp.). The discussion caught...
Welfare for the Rich?
Should Christians support welfare for the rich?
It might make sense. If the rich get richer, everyone benefits. Pour water into a cup long enough...
Blessed Virgin Mary?
Taking a class in medieval Christian worship at Notre Dame in 1975, I quickly learned what BVM meant. Blessed Virgin Mary. Not Bureau of...
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