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Christian Organizations Should Reconsider Using the Intercultural Development Inventory
If you’ve ever taken the Intercultural Development Inventory, a psychometric assessment administered at multiple secular and Christian organizations, you may have sensed that there’s more to it than your ability to get along with people of other cultures. In a...
On Whether Football is Coming Home
In which the Angelic Doctor considers whether or not football is coming home. (Credit for this idea to Joshua Heavin.) Article 1: Whether football is coming home? Objection 1: Nature teaches us that all living things are possessed of roots...
An Unresolved and Perilous Ambiguity
Recently, the 48th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America convened in St. Louis, Missouri. While much important business was conducted in the span of a few days, considerable attention was directed to the issue of ordination standards, particularly...
Mary’s Visitation in the Present Tense
For the church in the West, July 2nd has traditionally marked the church’s remembrance of the Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth. Both were with child under fearful and threatening circumstances. And in Elizabeth’s womb John the Baptist leaped...
Cultural Assimilation and the Curious Cases of Jessica Krug and Rachel Dolezal
After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, educator Jane Elliot held an experiment with her elementary school students that she called “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes.” The experiment became famous, and she repeated it for various audiences for years,...
The Ordinary Beauty of Flower Bouquets
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing – to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from.” – Till We Have Faces As I type this I’m staring at a bouquet...
Prolegomena to Poetry
A poem is a thought that comes out sounding good, and lingers awhile; But it doesn’t have to rhyme, Though it could What is poetry? A poet will maintain that it is a noble enterprise; a numinous expression of the...
Thin Discipleship
We are experiencing a crisis in American evangelicalism. Responses to issues such as partisan politics, police brutality, or the pandemic demonstrate deep “fault lines” — as one author has recently argued. One explanation argues that these fault lines have developed...
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes
The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. Christ’s death brings us back into communion with our Creator:...
The Six Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism
Written with Skyler Flowers Colin Kaepernick. “Grab them by the p… ” Confederate monuments. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. COVID – serious problem or overblown? Trump, Biden, other, or abstain? January 6th, 2021. The last few years have highlighted...