Relics and Miracles: Two Theological Essays by Sergius Bulgakov, translated by Boris Jakim (Eerdmans, 2011, $24), presents two theological essays by a leading Russian Orthodox theologian.
My wife is in Pennsylvania. She and our sons are packing up the rest of the house we still own there. She is also seeing all the friends we left behind when we moved to Wisconsin. Soon she and one of our sons will drive the truck to Madison, and we will move the last of our belongings into our new home. It feels like we are finally settling in here …
Stories of ministers performing same-sex covenanting ceremonies and a congregation under discipline dominate the news from area conferences this summer. At first glance, it appears former General Conference Mennonite Church (GC) conferences are following their traditional practice of congregational autonomy, while a former Mennonite Church (MC) conference is following its traditional assumption of conference authority over matters of faith among member congregations …
In May, I spent nearly two weeks immersed in a profusion of languages—a wonderfully diverse, sometimes confusing polyglot of tongues that has left me marveling at the miracle of communication …
It is hard to believe that followers of Jesus would object to a book entitled Love Wins. Yet in September 2011 a book by that title, written by pastor Rob Bell, stirred up many objections. The objections came in the form of a charge that Bell is a universalist. By universalist, his critics meant that Bell believes there is no hell and that all people will be in heaven …
Here are some recent books you may not want to take to the beach, but they do provide instruction and inspiration …
As I stood on the deck of the now retired USS Lexington in the bay of Corpus Christi, Texas, with my 10-year-old son, I was in awe of the power and human ingenuity that this World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier represented …
I saw Palm Sunday in a different light this year. As I do each year, I imagined Jesus’ journey toward Jerusalem. But as I pictured the scene on Palm Sunday, I didn’t see the same happy throng waving palm branches and laying colorful cloaks in the path of a young donkey ridden by the Messiah. Instead, I imagined the riveting video footage of the masses gathered in Tahrir Square in the midst of the Egyptian uprising …
The verse from Revelation has led some of us in Mennonite Church USA to embrace a “Revelation 7:9 vision.” That is, we long for a church that includes the many peoples who will be represented in heaven …
