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James Bratt

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On Secondary Allegiance

With the 4th of July on the horizon, I’d like to pick up on Tom Boogaart’s recent post about pledging allegiance. For most of my

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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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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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