Given all the recent brouhaha about baptism on The Fish Tank (for which I am largely responsible), a friend of mine expressed her concern with the lack of brouhaha about infant baptism – the mode of baptism practiced by the majority of Christians today. As I thought about infant baptism – in particular, as I
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Over the past few months I’ve been reading through the Psalms—just a few a night just before I go to bed. It had been a while since I’d last read them through, and they astonished me anew. It’s sometimes easy (for me, at least) to forget that history didn’t begin in 1989, when a certain
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In the past few weeks, I’ve been blessed to have had numerous occasions to reflect on the purpose and mission of Christian thought in general and the Ichthus in particular, and I wanted to take some time to share my perspective and engage with the rest of the community. I think the issue of articulating
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This is the third part of an ongoing series about what we’re waiting for during Advent. O come, thou Branch of Jesse’s tree, Free them from Satan’s tyranny That trust thy mighty power to save And give them victory over the grave. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel!
Christ is coming back. This much has been promised to us. The season of Advent is a time to remember this promise and to prepare—not because we ought not to prepare at other times, but because it is hard to hold all the facets of the Christian life in our minds and our hearts at
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Oh come, oh come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel! This Sunday was the first day of the church year, and the first day of the season of Advent. Advent is celebrated the four weeks
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A peculiar mark of many younger Christians in this current generation is the elevation of orthopraxy over orthodoxy. Right practice is now typically celebrated–social justice, environmental issues, sensitive political awareness, and the like. All of this I applaud and am deeply encouraged by. It counters some blatant mistakes of the past. However, along the way
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