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An Invitation to Worship: The Angels in the Christmas Story
Matthew Lee AndersonChurchembodimentFormation
They say only the good die young. I don’t know if it’s true. But it sounds good. And it’s a gentle way of talking about those whom we should not have lost. “Should.” There’s a world of meaning in that […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Our Neutered Consciences: Calvin and the Awareness of God's Judgment
Cate MacDonaldFormation
It seems particularly indicative of the state of my life right now that I am writing about thankfulness on December 1st. A day late and a dollar short would be a great sort of motto for me if it wasn’t […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Law, Gospel, and Theological Anthropology
Gary HartenburgFormation
It shouldn’t surprise us that Thomas has written about thankfulness. There are very few topics that he did not cover. He devotes an entire question of the Summa to thankfulness. (It is part of his section on justice.) I’ll just […]
Matthew Lee AndersonDevotionalFormation
As Christians, we are a people who live in a present that is shaped definitively by the past and the future. The meaning of our present, of our contemporary lives and relationships, is fixed, but not yet revealed. We take […]
Gary HartenburgFormation
The question of whether a cleric can kill a sinner (criminal) is not one that occupies the thoughts of Christians today. But whenever we find such a question that occupies a past thinker it’s important to reflect on why we […]
Cate MacDonaldTheology and PracticeFormation
Backyard Character
Jeremy MannFormation
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) wrote a book that had the alternative title How to Philosophize With a Hammer. I’m reminded of this when I read Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who could have just as easily written a book with the alternative […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
(Editor’s Note: During the Lenten season, we have invited guest writers to post reflections here at Mere-O. Micah Hoover is an engineer by day, and a blogger by night. He posts Kierkegaardian-style meditations on the Christian life at his blog […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
The past few weeks, I have had an ongoing conversation with a friend who has experienced traumatic evils and has questions about how to respond to them as a Christian. This is the latest installment in that series: it begins […]