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Wesley's evocative line in "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," is a reference to Haggai. Looking closely at the text can help us better understand the hymn.
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"Sacred Season," with Danielle Hitchen & Erin Morrow Hawley
Jake MeadorFeaturedChurch
The relationship between divine law and ecclesial authority articulated by Cardinal Burke sounds strikingly similar to Protestant teaching on the matter.
Jake MeadorChurch
To begin, if you aren’t following Tara Ann Thieke on Twitter, you should remedy that. She’s great. This post is inspired by a list she posted on Twitter awhile back which we have been discussing intermittently in Mere O Slack […]
Jake MeadorChurch
On Facebook my friend Scott Pryor rightly notes that if Dr. Miller failed to define ‘justice’ in his essay at Providence, my post suffers from the lack of a definition of “society.” So here is a stab at answering that question.
Jake MeadorChurch
Most deconversion narratives shouldn't surprise us because we are living through a time of widespread decline and failure in the American church.
Jake MeadorFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism
What happens when a community becomes so large that it is not able to do the very thing it was originally intended to do?
Brad EastFeaturedChurch
All that a sermon is meant to do is use human words to convey God's written word which, by the Spirit's grace, draw people toward a deeper love of God.
Matthew LaPineFeaturedChurch
Healthy churches must be churches in which downward mobility is a normal part of the community's life, in which the community is attentive to the weak.
Susannah Black RobertsWorkHistoryChurch
Yesterday, I guest-adjuncted for a friend’s class of Baylor students, who are on a sort of NYC Study Abroad semester (Yes, NYC is Abroad from Texas. Texas, after all, is on the continent.) The class was meant to be a […]
Joshua HeavinFeaturedChurch
The church will endure even when her great treasures fade. But will today's church be capable of creating our own treasures to give to those who follow us?
Jake MeadorFeaturedChurch
The burning of Notre Dame is a great loss to the global church. But in the burning is a call to those of us living through such days: We must rebuild.