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Confess the Creed: Review of a Pattern of Sounds Words

1700 years ago, a council of bishops met in the city of Nicaea, summoned by Emperor Constantine to discuss and settle numerous issues. The most important issue on the table was the doctrine of God. Arius (250-336), an influential leader in Alexandria, taught that Jesus, the Son, was created and not equal to the Father. Arius popularised the tune about Jesus, “There once was a time when he was not.” At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, Arius’s teaching was weighed next to Scripture, and he was condemned as a heretic. His theology was outside the bounds of Christian...

Scott Hurst

Review | Zwingli the Pastor

Jon Cleland

It may be tempting to think that the year 1517 — when Luther famously wrote his Ninety-five Thesis — brought about the Reformation and hence clearly demarcated a unified Protestantism from Roman Catholicism. It may be tempting to think this way, but it is not accurate. The Reformation was far more complicated. For one, the first Reformers were not actually looking to break away from the Catholic Church, but to reform it. It would only be many years later that such reform was unrealized, and a subsequent break ensued. Secondly, the Reformation was bigger than Luther and Wittenberg, Germany —...

Polly And the Screen Time Overload

Angie Velasquez Thornton

As summer gets underway, the following children’s book designed for children ages 3-7 seems just what many parents need to navigate the next couple of months of school break.  Betsy Howard Child, an editor for The Gospel Coalition, broaches a topic every Christian parent needs to discuss with their children. In the first scene of this story, we learn that every year Polly spends the last week of July at her grandparents’ farm. She especially looks forward to moments with Grandma and Grandpa, her cousins Tom and Zoe, and the farm animals. And the opening event is a birthday celebration in...

Review: Digital Liturgies

Scott Hurst

About a year ago I realized that much of my thinking about technology would not be categorized as wisdom. Many people in my church work in technology and I didn’t have much to offer them by way of pastoral wisdom. I started looking for good writers and thinkers to help me, and someone recommended Samuel James. I subscribed to his newsletter and he quickly became one of my favourite writers on technology and the Christian faith. When his new book Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age came out, I jumped at the chance to read it. Spoiler Alert: This...

Review: The Air We Breathe

Phil Cotnoir

Christians making their way in the world today are confronted by a dizzying multitude of messages, each with their own baked-in moral assumptions. All humans have equal value. We should care for the poor and marginalized. Sexual activity should always be consensual. People should be kind. Beliefs and policies should be based on evidence-based science. Oppression is wrong; freedom is good. We should work to advance moral progress. If we had to list the values behind these messages, we might come up with something like this: equality, compassion, consent, kindness, science, freedom, and progress. Others could be added, of course, but it’s a...

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