Your Official Post-AWP Success Assessment Quiz
Welcome back, everyone. No doubt AWP fulfilled all your wildest hopes and dreams, but there is still one final reckoning to be done. Sure, AWP was great for you. But how about you? Did you fulfill...
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Hymnody
“Can’t you see? You’re not making Christianity better. You’re just making rock ‘n’ roll worse.” Hank Hill To begin, a confession: When I was fourteen, I listened to Petra. You probably don’t remember...
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Epistemology
“Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.” –Marilynne Robinson When I was a young man and considering entering the ministry, I took very seriously the task of deciding my position...
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Weaker Brother
“He can no longer have God for his father, who has not the Church for his mother.” – Cyprian of Carthage I got an email from her the first week of classes. Her complaint, in short, was that the...
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Flight
Photo by Davey Walters In the church parking lot, a bush full of sparrows and, above, a hawk. She sits patient, empty-taloned. They flit within, hackles up so to speak. She sits. Waits. She looks at me...
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Devotion
I bought this bible when I was twenty and getting ready to leave for India. I wanted something to carry in my pocket, and for years I did just that. I carried it with me, in my pocket or in my...
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Passing, part 1: A conversation with Rob Burns
I have known Rob Burns for about as long as I can remember. We were kids together, awkward adolescents, teenagers. We spent many a sleepover contemplating the great mysteries: God, eternity, and—most...
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Passing, part 2: A conversation with Rob Burns
Jacob Wrestling the Angel, by Edward Knippers, oil on panel – 12’x8′ – 2012 Over the past few months, I’ve been talking with an old friend, Rob Burns, about his departure from Evangelicalism. The first...
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Jed
Near the student union at Florida State University, there was a kind of informal “free speech area” where members of the public could stand and stump for their cause of choice. Student organizations...
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Advent
Each year, as the days grow short, we remember. That first week of Advent, there was news of violence. It was in the air around us, and it was terrible, but it was not surprising. I drove to work. The...
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