On Anselm’s Pursuit of Joy

Unknown author / Public domain Gavin Ortlund is the pastor of First Baptist Church in Ojai, California. He is also the author of an academic commentary on Anselm of Canterbury’s (1033–1109 AD) Proslogion. He has also authored a number of other works such as Finding the Right Hills to Die On and Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals. In short, Ortlund models something that Christians have done since the very beginning: a pastoral pursuit of theological thinking for the sake of the church. Not every pastor has the capacity or opportunity to pursue scholarly writing such as is the case with Anselm’s...

Wyatt Graham

Reflecting on Martin Luther’s Thoughts on Ministry during a Plague

Sarah Roberts

John Gilmour: A Canadian Baptist Every Christian Could Learn From

David Mann

Dallimore Ran

Darryl Dash

“Origen’s Last Preserved Exegetical Work”: The Gospel according to Matthew

Wyatt Graham

Girls, Body Image, and Theological Poetry: Lucy Hutchinson on the Beauty of the Human Body

Jenny-Lyn de Klerk

Sometimes in an attempt to counter messages about self-esteem and body-shaming that ignore God we forget to acknowledge the beauty and goodness of the human body altogether. This kind of accidental Gnosticism can be especially harming for teenage girls who are constantly thinking about their bodies but are only taught two responses: one that makes them obsess even more about beauty by telling them to find meaning in themselves, and the other that makes them feel silly or sinful for struggling with body image in the first place but with no way to move forward other than trying to ignore...

Girls, Body Image, and Theological Poetry: Lucy Hutchinson on the Beauty of the Human Body

Jenny-Lyn de Klerk

The Sufficiency of Scripture among Aboriginal Leaders

Clint Humfrey

There are few politicians or other leaders of society who would be bold enough to cite their faith in God when engaging with the federal government. Often leaders, even Christian ones, are reticent to bring their religious convictions to the forefront when engaging in politics. But when we find expressions of spiritual conviction included in public, official documents, we know that such convictions are held firmly, even if they could bring a political cost. As Canadians become confused about the history of their nation, they have often failed to understand how strongly many early Canadians held to religious convictions. For...

The Sufficiency of Scripture among Aboriginal Leaders

Clint Humfrey

The Virtue of Reading Ordinary Christians

Micah Caswell

Reading about the lives of ordinary Christians from the past gives hope for how to have an impact on our own generation today. While many read about the luminaries, the virtue of reading about ordinary Christians often goes overlooked. Reflecting on the history of ordinary Christians helps preserve our faith, deepen our theology, deepen our understanding of contemporary culture, and is, in fact, an enjoyable venture. Yes, enjoyable. Reading History Preserves Our Faith I recently published Thomas Patient: the Father of the Irish Baptist Church. Prior to my research, I had never heard of Patient. In many ways, he was...

The Virtue of Reading Ordinary Christians

Micah Caswell

Word or Image? Wisdom from Theodulf of Orléans

Michael A. G. Haykin

The Libri Carolini was drawn up by Theodulf of Orléans (c.760-821)—one of the key theologians of the Carolingian church and the author of the well-known hymn “All glory, laud, and honour”—in 790–793 and then later revised by him with the help of, among others, Alcuin of York (c.732–804)—the private tutor to Charlemagne and the head of the palace school at Aachen. It was a well-argued response by the Latin-speaking Carolingian Church to the iconodulist decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea (787). In essence, the Libri Carolini sought to refute this council’s advocacy of the use of icons as vehicles...