Arts & Culture

“This book is decidedly not about the right answer or solution for the church on the theological topic of homosexuality . . .its posture seeks to be one of openness that is inquisitive, personal, relational, and dependent on the Spirit. This book is about generous spaciousness” (26).

The true message of James, in Ellul’s view, describes a faith that is both transformative and existential. We cannot be Christians merely as an intellectual or spiritual exercise, nor can we be Christians in isolation from the world.

It’s nothing new, exactly, but there’s nothing wrong, either, with asking once again that God’s will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Our Father, teach us to want.

Readers will find in Forgiveness an incredible story of God’s grace, as well as a horrific testimony to the evils the human heart is capable of executing.

As any post-war immigrant knows after returning from a visit to the fatherland, not much has stayed the same. But the possibility of forgiveness remains.

The American public theologian Cornel West once said that “Justice is what love looks like in public.”

The new HBO medical drama “The Knick” takes place in an “astonishingly modern world” (so says one of the characters in a stirring soliloquy in the first episode). Set in the New York of the early 1900s, everything feels like it’s on the cusp. Or on the edge, maybe.

We’ve all wondered about life after death. Where do we go when we die? What does “resurrection of the body” mean? Can my loved ones dead and gone still see and hear me? Who will make it to heaven? What does it mean that God is creating a new heavens and a new earth?