Category: Articles

Black Bag Theology

I’m Reformed for a bunch of reasons. My reasons aren’t the same now as they were back when I was an arrogant eighteen-year-old, when I

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An Eagle’s Cry

It was five in the morning, the time in his experience—between four and five—when the condemned was wakened to be led out. It was always

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A Share in Christ

Isn’t that fascinating? According to the framers of the catechism there is a symbiotic and inextricable relationship between Jesus Christ and those who love and

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Plumb

Plumb—true, precise, upright. According to my skewed memory, “plumb” was one of my grandfather’s favorite words. As a boy, when we would work on little

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Faithful to the (Curtain) Call

With the Thanksgiving turkey, stuffing, and green bean casserole settling in our distended stomachs, we headed down to the unfinished basement of my Uncle Jack’s

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The New Creation in Person

When Jesus rose from the dead on Easter morning he rose as the beginning of the new world that Israel’s God had always intended to

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A Peculiar People

I recently returned to Canada for a two-week sojourn to teach at the University of Toronto. This was a homecoming of sorts—to my “home and

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