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James Bratt

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Growing Into Pentecost

By James Bratt When I was a kid, I never got the big deal about Pentecost. For one, it didn’t come along with any special

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Is Evangelicalism Christian?

by James Bratt I recently attended a conference at Notre Dame honoring the career of Mark Noll. As one of the most accomplished scholars of

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Moved by the Liturgy of Revival

I love high-church liturgy. Smells and bells, processions and litanies, choirs and acolytes – the more the merrier. It might be because of the sere

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Not Guilty, Just Responsible

I was asked to speak this week at a teach-in addressing the latest spate of racially charged killings involving police—killings by police and killings of

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Shine, Perishing Republic

Since I’ve drawn holiday-weekend duty, I need to gin up something about the holiday. And if something worked well along that line once, it might

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The Image of God, II

Last time I raised a question that came up in the seminar I’m attending on how our images of Jesus—particularly of his body—affect the church

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The Image of God

I’m serving as the campus host of a seminar on the “Bodies of Christ.” For the next two weeks a group of us historians, artists,

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Summer History Reading

Only six more days till the Memorial Day weekend, kids, so it’s time to get serious about those summer plans. Top of the list for

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Dare to be a Daniel

It’s hard to think of a more perfect antithesis than the one served up in this week’s news. On Tuesday night Donald Trump became the

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