Toward a Theology of Unity

The Basis for Unity If you go to a synagogue service you will be sure to hear the following words sung, probably more than once: Shema Yisrael adonai...
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Religious Freedom: Some Historical...

Religious Freedom: Some Historical Perspectives and Present Applications1 Introductory Remarks
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Protestantism and Contemporary...

This year, the Christian World commemorates the five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, an event that tradition tells us began on...
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Luther on Galatians

Verse 13. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 
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The Eloi Risk

In 1895 H.G. Wells published a science fiction novel titled The Time Machine. It became a literary classic, eventually adapted into multiple film...
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Patriotism: A Blessing or a Curse? A...

“You take a bunch of people who don’t seem any different from you and me, you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with a...
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The Covenants: Two Kinds of...

Many of us read the Bible in linear fashion in which every narrative, piece of poetry, legal text, and other forms of prose merit equal weight to...
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When Should We Use the Bible? Forrest...

“When should we use the Bible? It was written in a different culture. It is prescientific. It does not deal with many of our issues. We sometimes use...
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From “Foolish Gentiles” to “My Little...

In the first two thirds of the Letter to the Galatians, Paul is engaged in a frank and sometimes angry, rhetorical defense of his apostolic authority...
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The Authority of Scripture: A Personal...

I have not always held the view of Scriptural authority that I now maintain. My personal pilgrimage has, I believe, helped me understand at first...
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