C. Kavin Rowe: The formation of scriptural imagination
Learning to read the Bible well and developing a scriptural way of living requires slow reading, sustained attention and community, writes the New Testament scholar.
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Bruce Herman answers: Why is it important for Christians to make art?
Christian artists work from a deep place of faith, a place of engagement with the Creator of the entire visible universe, says a painter and art professor.
Timothy Larsen: Why is history important for Christian leadership?
Pop culture may be obsessed with the pope’s red shoes, but Christian leaders can’t live entirely in the present. Christians should move toward the future without letting go of the past.
Allison Backous Troy: Poetry and presence
Poetry can help us recover a sacramental sense of presence in the world around us, says a writer and teacher.
Practices that sustain Christian community
Ethicist Christine Pohl names four for Christian institutions that want their corporate lives to reflect the very nature of God.
C. Kavin Rowe: Listening well
Flourishing institutions require leaders who know how to listen well, which demands the ability to pay active attention while avoiding distraction and to relate what is being said to its context.
John Witte Jr.: Religious views should be welcomed in our public life
Religion should be part of our political and legal conversation, says a law and religion scholar. Yes, it can make politics and lawmaking more complicated and contested, but also more realistic.
Lisa Nichols Hickman: The ministry of 'Why?'
Two scriptural resources for fielding the hardest, most important question.
Ed Moore: The nature of crosses
Thoughts on choice, discipleship and American violence in the wake of the Aurora, Colorado, shootings.
Wesley Hill: God of the messy
Raymond J. Nogar was a mid-20th century philosopher of science. He wasn't a bad lay theologian either.