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The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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Porneia: Sex Gone Bad — An Excerpt from "Faithful: A Theology of Sex"
You don’t have to look too far to see how far sex has fallen. The New Testament has a name for such sex gone bad: porneia.
Most Bibles tran...
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How Do We Reckon Urban Life with the Christian Faith? A Theology of Urban Life
In his new book Cities of Tomorrow and the City to Come, (available 5/5/15) Noah Toly invites you to become a flâneur. Flâneur is a French w...
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What has Chicago to do with Jerusalem? — An Excerpt from "Cities of Tomorrow and the City to Come"
Of course our question is a contemporary twist on an ancient one: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”
Then, Tertullian was asking abou...
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Is Surgery Part of God's Story? — An Excerpt from "The Scalpel and the Cross"
In the past several years we have been considering health care from a number of angles, some old, some new:
economically, the costs of sur...
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How Should Holiness Shape Our Public Posture? Abortion Shows Us — An Excerpt from "The Political Disciple"
"What does it look like for people to become enemies, and what might be a model of a holy public posture?"
Vincent Bacote asks this importa...
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Should Christians Participate in the Public Sphere? An Ordinary Theology of Politics
What does theology have to do with the ordinary affairs of our daily lives?
It’s a question people in the church have been asking for genera...
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