There Remains a Sabbath Rest: The Promised Land Then and Now

Those who seek a land seek a home. Many go to a new country intending to depart after a time. But those who seek a land leave one soil to make a new soil their own.

Seeking a land is what God called Abraham to do. In Genesis 12, God commanded Abraham, “Go from your country and your kindred and...

The New Prophecy: Echoes of Montanism in the New Apostolic Reformation

In 1994, a Fuller Seminary professor studying church growth coined a term for a movement he believed encapsulated the most radical development in church history since the Reformation. In his telling, this movement reached further back than the Reformation. Its roots lay in the age of the New Testament apostles, and its goal would be to recover the Great...

Making Time for Time

Time surrounds me. Clocks fill the spaces of my life. Nearly every device and appliance revels in the chance to mock me with the passage of time. Display after display reminds me that another hour has passed, another day has vanished, another year has run its course. There is no escaping the reality that as each moment heaves forward and...

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On My Mind

I recently completed my fourth move in the past five years. Each time I pack my things and cart them to my next residence, I’m left with a mild sense of being unrooted—as if I’ve lost, in some small part, connection to community and place.

I remember sitting alone in my empty college apartment in 2021,...

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What I’ve learned

A central theme we’ve touched on in my medieval and reformation church history class is the relation of nature to grace. Here are some things I’ve learned on the topic. Note that what follows does not necessarily reflect the views of my professor or my institution. Any inaccuracies are entirely my fault.

The natural part of...