Refugia Faith is one of the best books in print on how people of faith can summon the hope and the courage needed to heal and restore our home planet.
Steven Bouma-PredigerJune 8, 2022
Steve Bouma-Prediger Rich Mouw is widely regarded as one of the most well-known and influential Christian scholars of his generation. A philosopher by training but widely read in many other fields, Rich taught philosophy at Calvin College for seventeen years before moving in 1985 to Fuller Theological Seminary as professor of Christian philosophy and ethics. In 1989 he became provost and in 1993 became Fuller's president. This summer he retires after two decades at the helm of one of the…
Steven Bouma-PredigerJuly 1, 2013
JUNE/JULY 2012: EDITOR'S NOTE by Steven Bouma-Prediger Nicholas Wolterstorff is widely regarded as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of his generation. A philosopher by training but widely read in a plethora of other fields, Nick taught philosophy at his alma mater, Calvin College, for three decades before teaching at Yale for twelve years. Nick has authored important and influential books on a wide range of topics: metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, liturgy, education, social and political philosophy. For many years--the…
Steven Bouma-PredigerJune 1, 2012
"Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status-quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy." So proclaims Wendell Berry in his essay "Christianity and the Survival of Creation," from his book Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community (pp. 114-115). A bit further on, Berry argues that Christianity "has flown the flag and chanted…
Steven Bouma-PredigerFebruary 1, 2011
Steve Bouma-Prediger If you ever met them, you wouldn't think that Kenneth and Kenny share much more than their names. But even their names are different. No one would ever call Kenneth "Kenny" and "Kenneth" doesn't even appear on Kenny's birth certificate. No, Kenny was Kenny from the beginning. There are, however, a few things they have in common. They are both male, white, and of English descent. And we could say that they are neighbors, although they've never met.…
Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian WalshApril 16, 2008
NOVEMBER 2007: REVIEW What does it mean to engage in a spiritual reading of the Bible? How do we read the Bible not for information but in order to respond in prayer and obedience? How do we read the Bible as a living book speaking to us and shaping us in our everyday living? These questions animate Eugene Peterson's latest publication. In Eat This Book--the second volume in a projected five-volume series on spiritual theology--pastor, teacher, and Bible translator Peterson…
Steven Bouma-PredigerNovember 15, 2007
Steven Bouma-Prediger You can't tell me there is no mystery It's everywhere I turn So sings Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn in a new song. In a world of car bombs and train wrecks, global warming and frozen relief funds, it is, however, all too easy to miss the mystery. Mystery is anything but obvious. It doesn't seem to be everywhere we turn. More likely these days everywhere we turn we find weeping and wailing evoked by violence and injustice. Just…
Steven Bouma-PredigerJanuary 16, 2007
My wood-pallet compost bin is decomposing. Not only the leaves and coffee grounds and eggshells inside it, but the bin itself. It desperately needs to be replaced. But this is a truth I would rather not face. It is, to borrow the title of a recent movie, an inconvenient truth. For replacing my compost bin requires some work on my part--racking down four more pallets, hammering them together, slopping some paint on the finished product to make it look respectable.…
Steven Bouma-PredigerNovember 16, 2006
"Abuse is use without grace; it is always a failure in the counterpoint of use and enjoyment." So argues Joseph Sittler in the title essay of this book. And so argued Sittler again and again, in a speaking and writing style that was uniquely his own, over a long distinguished career as pastor, preacher, and theologian. Whether referring to wine, God, or the care of the earth, Sittler waxes eloquent on the power and grace of God and the many…
Steven Bouma-PredigerMarch 16, 2005