The recovery of meaningful church architecture hinges upon the retrieval of a realist metaphysic.

It is God’s eternal Word, incarnate in Christ, which allows us to read the present time.

My students are afraid to preach—not all of them, but more and more, it seems. And it is often the brightest and most eloquent, those who are least justified in parroting Moses’s excuse—“I am slow of speech and of tongue”—who lack the confidence to open the Scriptures for the people of God. I write now for them.