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Myles Werntz is the author of Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology's Revolutionary Century. He writes at Taking Off and Landing and teaches at Abilene Christian University.
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Myles Werntz is the author of Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology's Revolutionary Century. He writes at Taking Off and Landing and teaches at Abilene Christian University.
Myles WerntzTheologyFormation
To enter into the eternal love of God is to enter into a love of the poor.
Myles WerntzBook ReviewsJournal 6Journal
Two recent books on slavery in the thought of Augustine confront us with the question of how to regard the saint's reliance on slavery in his theology.
Myles WerntzPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics
Discontent with technology is a thorny briar patch with weird friends. We ask questions about what is to be done, if blowing it all up isn’t an option.
Myles WerntzPolitical Theory
The most useful image for understanding our current political moment is not 'empire' but rather 'bureaucracy.'
Myles WerntzFeaturedCultureEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3
In a recent guest column at Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study, Wendy Robinson wrote about her forays into the world of Peloton, on a growing phenomenon: the lack of community which people find within the ecosystems created by consumer products.[1] […]
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Loneliness and even estrangement we are familiar with, but isolation? Is this too strong a term to describe the ways in which sin afflicts our common life? The skepticism of this nomenclature, I think, is twofold. First, it may come […]
Myles WerntzFeatured
Christian concerns with the culture go all the way back, dating beyond the legacies of Justin Martyr and Augustine to the earliest generations of Christians. But even here, in the first centuries, negotiations with culture were not straightforward: for every […]
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To anyone paying attention to church participation in North America over the last forty years, things are not now, nor have they been, very good. The jeremiads have been spoken, the eulogies written, and the post-mortem begun, while the patient […]
Myles WerntzFeaturedChurch
As 2020 has lingered on, I have watched as marker after marker of a year’s progression have been overtaken by an endless sea of sameness: one weekend blurs into the next, one Zoom call into the next. The rhythms of […]
Myles WerntzBook Reviewsrace
Jones's new book uses sociological data to lay out a plain and uncomfortable truth for America's white churches: the problem of racism is pervasive.
Myles WerntzFeatured
Gladd's book is useful, but suffers from an under-developed understanding of the Holy Spirit's work in uniting and sustaining the church under Christ.
Myles WerntzPoliticsFeatured
The debates about Christianity and nationalism have missed the central problem because they have not sufficiently reckoned with neo-liberal globalization.