Sublime

It was Arendt who showed me that Augustine was a cartographer of the heart.

In all roles theologians are committed to that form of existence arising from Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. They know that

When fruitfulness is our criterion for evaluation, we are held accountable but not crushed by the expectation that a certain number of lives will be changed dramatically under our ministry.

God can give and God can take away. Will we trust the increase or curse the decrease, or will we say, “Blessed be the name of the LORD?” The way we are typically programmed to measure the success of our ministries sets us up for hollow victory and desperate failure. But this is not to say we should never do any measuring. It is only to say that wha

Some of the theological themes you’ll find include the centrality of Christ, justification by faith alone, the authority of Scripture, and the importance of putting faith in God above human reason.

We don’t know the kind of shared suffering Peter is referencing, though. I wonder how much humility could be afforded the Western church if we acquainted ourselves more with the suffering of the church in the two-thirds world. Suddenly Monday morning pop-ins don’t seem like such a big a deal. Let us stand with our brothers who are being slaughtered

because of the expectations modernism has created, mysteries that once led people to worship God now can lead them to doubt instead.

a contrast life aimed at communion.

One of our jobs as apologists is to ask the question, “But what if it is true?”