I recently learned that something I said in a previous post was not entirely clear. Never! I received a very good question about the post called “Reflections: Evangelical and Reformed.” I had said: “Of course, the ‘Neo-Evangelical’ movement did not encompass all of evangelicalism, including many African-American Christians and Pentecostals…” The question is: “Explain what […]

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This is the first in a series of “Catechetical Conversations”
I just had a fascinating discussion with my four-year old daughter. We were sitting at dinner, and I was asking her a new question from the Children’s Catechism, which we have been working through, off and on, for quite awhile. We had talked about God creating […]

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As have many of you, I’ve been thinking about the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, wondering what it means in the grand scheme of things. I’ve also been wondering if there are any take home points for us in the very different world of mainline Protestantism. So what does the election […]

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