Three Phases of Spiritual Formation
I wrote this piece a few years ago and it still comes up from time to time. One of those times came last
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Divine Presence and Human Response
Over at the newly renovated Tabletalk site, I have a post on John 6:60-69 and the ways in which people respond to the
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Three Modes of Christian Formation: Experience, Doctrine, and Liturgy
A year ago I attended a conference at Georgetown University in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Vatican II council. The conference, entitled
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A Community of Joyful Exiles and Penitent Strangers
I have a post over at the Christward Collective about the dynamics of exile for the people of God living in a culture
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Public Expressions of the Gospel
Explicit public expressions of the gospel in popular culture are few and far between. We just do not see many public examples of the
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Palm Sunday and Unmet Expectations
Woody Allen famously said that 80 percent of life is just showing up. He was talking about the big plans that people make but
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Global Christianity by the Numbers
The visible people of God have always been a tricky group to quantify. Does one go by mere self-identification or should there be some measure of “devotion” such as church attendance, daily prayer life, or bumper sticker collection? What’s an honest sociologist to do?
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