Matthew as Story
In the three-year cycle of the ILCW lectionary, Year A is the year of Matthew. Since Year A has now ended and we are well into Year B, this review is perhaps a year too ...
Review: Women Pastors?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...” These words from the Declaration of Independence have no legal authority, since they are not part of the Constitution or the Bill ...
Double Privilege
Dear Treasure Filled Jars of Clay, There was no smoke. No blaring trumpets. No sound of God's voice thundering from heaven. Yet as the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee spoke in Capernaum's synagogue, the ...
Review: Christ-Centered Preaching
As the title indicates, the author is concerned with centering preaching in Christ. In the foreword to the second edition, he makes a two-part clarification on “Christ-centered”: first as “standing for...God’s redemptive work, which finds ...
Review: Fallen
This book is a volume in the Theology in Community series, which is advertised as “first-rate evangelical scholars taking a multidisciplinary approach to key Christian doctrines.” The goal is to focus on the Old and ...