vol. 6 no. 1 Spring 2011
Emotions and Faith: The Perplexing Relationship Between What We Feel and What We Believe
"Does our faith make any difference when it comes to the world of emotions? The Bible speaks about the transformation of our minds (Rom 12:1), but what about the transformation of our feelings? Should we, as Christians, experience emotions differently than those outside the faith?"vol. 6 no. 1 Spring 2011
Emotions and Faith: The Perplexing Relationship Between What We Feel and What We Believe
"Does our faith make any difference when it comes to the world of emotions? The Bible speaks about the transformation of our minds (Rom 12:1), but what about the transformation of our feelings? Should we, as Christians, experience emotions differently than those outside the faith?"vol. 5 no. 2 Fall 2010
Touchdown Jesus: On the Wages of Discipleship in America
"So if American Christians want to reinvigorate their church's challenge to culture, then change is necessary both at the level of the identity-producer and the identity-consumer: producers need to be less opportunistic about using Christian identity to get ahead, and consumers need to change their expectations about the visibility of Christian identity, being less willing to provide a payoff for those opportunists."vol. 5 no. 1 Spring 2010
Testing One, Two, Three
The abilities that are valued in school might also be upheld in the church, but the church is not restricted to abilities that can be measured by standardized testing. A child's ability to sing songs of worship, to serve God through hands-on acts of justice, and to be kind to the other would be lifted up and worthy of notice . . . But, how are we to measure such lofty plans in the life of the church? How will we know that we are indeed accomplishing these aims?vol. 4 no. 1 Spring 2009
Capitalism, the Crash, and Christianity
Keeping this in mind helps us recognize that while our various projects (economic and otherwise) of making the world look the way we want it to may be doomed, we need not succumb to the gloomy conclusion that there’s nothing for us to do and no way for us to move forward. We can train our desires because God has not abandoned us to the whirl. The Christian promise is that God has not and will not leave us bereft of Godself. So we train our desires in the faith that God has given up on neither the world nor our significance in it.vol. 3 no. 2 Fall 2008
God's Diet and the Retraining of Desire
The faith inherent in the Lord's Supper points the way beyond complicity, even weak complicity. It reveals that sharing withothers is part of delighting, and that the creation is for all. God
gives to all without condition and calls us all to a community of
mutual benefit.
vol. 3 no. 1 Spring 2008
The Seductiveness of The Familiar
Professor Erskine Clarke examines the lives of two young 19th century seminary graduates, part of this CTS community in the past, whose lives were marked by faith and failures, and by deep moral ambiguity in the runup to the Civil War.vol. 2 no. 2 Fall 2007
Creation in Community - Faith and the Environment
Fretheim sees extraordinary interdependence in the creation account of Genesis 1 and 2. God shares creative powers ("let the earth bring forth"). God involves others in the creative process and chooses to act in genuinely interdependent ways. God creates with a divine council ("let us make"). We can learn different ways of caring for the environment from this creative and relational God.vol. 2 no. 1 Spring 2007
"The Shaping of Things To Come?"
These new ecclesial experiments should be viewed as a prophetic movement both to our culture and to our traditional ecclesiastical expressions. We need to listen, to watch, to learn.vol. 1 no. 2 Fall 2006
Keeping Faith in a Fearful World
In the midst of a culture of fear, the churches need to be intentional about cultivating the virtue of hope-both as personally and corporately. How might we do this? One way is to recover an understanding of divine providence that can help us trust the future.vol. 1 no. 1 Spring 2006
