The Church Is Fully Alive When It Is Fully Together

The Church Is Fully Alive When It Is Fully Together

Note: From Glorification and the Life of Faith (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. In many church traditions, at some point during a service of Christian worship, there likely comes a moment when those gathered will...
Creation and Christian Ethics: From the Trinity to the Triumphant Return

Creation and Christian Ethics: From the Trinity to the Triumphant Return

Note: From Creation and Christian Ethics (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. What has creation to do with ethics? That’s the puzzled question I’m frequently asked by people who hear about this project. The prophets and...
What Is Gender? And Why Does Trying to Answer That Question Drive Everybody (to Put It in Highly Technical Theological Terms) Absolutely Bonkers?

What Is Gender? And Why Does Trying to Answer That Question Drive Everybody (to Put It in Highly Technical Theological Terms) Absolutely Bonkers?

Note: From Gender as Love (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. I think that [Sarah] Coakley is basically correct in her claim that gender is defined by that which makes us who we are, our identities, something that...
Recovering an Indispensable Protestant Doctrine: Salvation Requires Good Works

Recovering an Indispensable Protestant Doctrine: Salvation Requires Good Works

Note: From The Doctrine of Good Works: Reclaiming a Neglected Protestant Teaching (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. To say that Christianity has a crisis of credibility is an understatement. Some skeptics raise...