Jason Byassee: Innovating with an ancient
Even in orthodoxy, what is older is not necessarily better.
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Verity Jones: Thinking theologically about using social media
The New Media Project wants to help faith leaders become more theologically savvy about social media, which is rapidly changing the landscape of Christian life.
C. Kavin Rowe: Christian success
Success follows the pattern of Christ. Christ-shaped leaders include, rather than deny, the reality of failure and death.
Virgilio Elizondo: Our Lady of Guadalupe, gift of a loving God
Long revered in Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe is today acclaimed as the mother of the new humanity that is emerging throughout the American hemisphere.
C. Kavin Rowe: Failure as Christ-shaped leadership
Christians need leaders -- and institutions -- to train us in how to fail.
David Steinbrenner: When God only knows
Our individual lives and stories do not end when we start to forget who we are.
Jeremy Begbie: What can we learn about the gospel from music?
One of the foremost experts on theology and the arts talks about why “Do I like this?” is not the first question we should ask about works of art, and why sometimes silence is preferable to music.
Jason Byassee: If you understand it...
When we talk of leadership, as when we talk of anything else in theology, we should let Scripture be mysterious.
James Martin: Faith leads to joy
Despite the pervasiveness of serious, somber Christianity, the heart of the gospel message is joy -- so laugh, says the Jesuit priest and author of a new book on religion and humor.
Laughing in church
Is it any wonder that so many people find religious settings stultifying? It's time to recover joy, humor and laughter in Christian churches, says the Rev. James Martin.