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Where does one turn when the devil’s mouth gapes open, and evil is ready to claim us for its own?
Remember Jesus’s suffering for us, for it is when we remember God, that God remembers us.
The fasting of Lent reminds us to focus on Jesus who will feed his people if they are willing.
Jesus who has come to restore all things will give sabbath restoration to our withered lives.
December 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.
In this interview, Credo’s Executive Editor Timothy Gatewood discusses Lectio Divina with Hans Boersma.
The darkness of our lives awakens deep within us the longing for God’s coming in the flesh.
Pantheizing 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.
Jesus’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.
Pure 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.
We 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.
“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.
“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.
Easter is good news: Our bodies too will be raised immortal, incorruptible—joined together with our souls in paradisal glory.
The Lord God wants to change us from talkers into listeners, transfigure us from snobs to slaves.
Mark’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.
On November 21, 2022, Professor Jim Houston, Emeritus Board of Governors’ Professor of Spiritual Theology, celebrated his 100th birthday. Rev. Dr. Boersma offered a meditation to a group gathered to celebrate Dr. Houston.
If Christ’s intermediate coming is a hidden one, how do we discern it? This dilemma has become pressing in our modern age, since philosophers such as Hobbes, Hume, and Kant have questioned our ability to move beyond the senses. If sense perception is the only means of knowledge, contemplatio of God in Christ would seem impossible.
Prayer, however, repudiates such modern restraints.
How can we trust that, despite all we go through, God hears us when we pray, “Grant, O harvest Lord, that we / Wholesome grain and pure may be”?
With all the past persecutions of the Christians in mind, what does Jesus mean when he says, “Not a hair of your head will perish”?
So-called gender-inclusive language (such as using they instead of he or people instead of men) theologically excludes individuals, both men and women, from salvation.
There is no “heaven” and “earth” as we’ve commonly come to understand them; harps and clouds on the one hand and unimportant physical matter on the other. Earth is charged with the grandeur of God, and we can learn to see His character and His workmanship crackling through every fiber of the world we live in.
Perhaps the best form of resistance comes from those who, together and in community, deliberately and decisively resist the demands for the body's submission to the Security State.
Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity 35/3 (May/June 2022): 21–22.
Here on earth, we may be tempted to believe the lie that the only reality is division and hatred, destruction and death. But the resurrection of Jesus puts us back in the Garden of Eden.
Judas’s kiss was deeply painful, for his kiss was a betrayal, not just of a symbol, not just of a friend, but of the Kiss himself. Judas used a kiss to betray his Kiss.
I'm going to make a plea for a retrieval of sin, a theology of personal sin that through compunction and introspection yields purification and healing.
What is the more serious legal offense: to peacefully protest vax mandates and QR passports or to pressure and coerce people into submission, grievously violating the very heart of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, withholding all public travel from the unvaxxed, and imprisoning people for so-called violent rhetoric?