Where does one turn when the devil’s mouth gapes open, and evil is ready to claim us for its own?
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Remember Jesus’s suffering for us, for it is when we remember God, that God remembers us.
Read MoreThe fasting of Lent reminds us to focus on Jesus who will feed his people if they are willing.
Read MoreRelying on Saint Maximus the Confessor, I argue that the Incarnation tells us how God typically manifests himself in created form. God's paradigmatic way of acting is visible, therefore, in the Incarnation. The Incarnation—God’s original and full manifestation in the flesh—is figuratively present throughout creation. Creation, therefore, is a theophany or embodiment of God.
Read MoreJesus who has come to restore all things will give sabbath restoration to our withered lives.
Read MoreDecember 18, 2023, will go down in history as the date on which the die was cast: the date on which the church renounced the gospel’s right to call us to repentance; the date that, more than any other, signals the church’s implosion in the West.
Read MoreIn this interview, Credo’s Executive Editor Timothy Gatewood discusses Lectio Divina with Hans Boersma.
Read MoreThe darkness of our lives awakens deep within us the longing for God’s coming in the flesh.
Read MorePantheizing God is no less troubling than anthropomorphizing or mythologizing him. And yet. Christianity is not Gnostic. Christians believe in the body as created by God, assumed by God, and raised up by God. And if human bodies matter from exitus to reditus, from beginning to end, then perhaps we ought to think again about whether God, too, might be embodied.
Read MoreJesus’s burden is different in kind from those of the scribes and Pharisees. With Jesus, the one giving us the yoke is himself the yoke.
Read MoreConservatism, Maturity & the Demonic
Read MorePure hospitality applied to the Eucharist implies a universalism of the worst sort: It is the radical insistence that the church is without any positive identity whatever.
Read MoreWe applaud our Anglican bishops’ willingness to reject neocolonial demands to accept the hegemony of the sexual revolution. But we are concerned that in an admirable attempt to resist the liberal project, they unwittingly have themselves opened the door to the use of Scripture for liberal ends.
Read More“O Taste & See! The Sweetness of Scripture Is Not Just for Beekeeping Monks.” Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity 36/3 (May/June 2023): 29–33.
Read More“Toxic Feminism.” Review essay of Abigail Favale, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity 36/3 (May/June 2023): 42–44.
Read MoreEaster is good news: Our bodies too will be raised immortal, incorruptible—joined together with our souls in paradisal glory.
Read MoreThe Lord God wants to change us from talkers into listeners, transfigure us from snobs to slaves.
Read MoreThis is the gospel of Lent: He anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay.
Read MoreMark’s Gospel is the Gospel of Jesus the Fool. Mark’s Gospel confronts us with Jesus’s folly in at least two ways: the folly of retreat and the folly of humility.
Read More“Dionysian Power: A Positively Medieval Hierarchy.” Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity 36/2 (March/April 2023): 24–30.
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