Mother Mary and a Post-Traumatic Ecclesiology of Grief
In November 2020 it became clear to my husband and me that his mother, Kaye, did not have long to live. After eight years of on-and-off treatment for ovarian cancer, it was now, when we were living...
View ArticleWhen Jesus Doubted God: Perspectives from Calvin on Post-Traumatic Faith
Witnessing Trauma The willingness to witness trauma is often autobiographical. This is true of me in my role as a professor of theology who is active in our university’s Institute of Trauma and...
View ArticleReimagining Racial Justice: Shakespeare, Douglass, and the Visibility of the...
The student’s frantic phone message read “Dr. McCampbell, there is a group of men standing out on 25th street underneath a large sign that says, ‘Make America White Again!’”1 When I finally arrived at...
View ArticleGod Is Not a Sacrifice: A Review of Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic...
Katherine Sonderegger, The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons, vol. 2, Systematic Theology (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2020). “Spectacle is the origin of the world”—that’s what Éric...
View ArticleSacred Space, Desecration, and Reconciliation: A Story and Some Theses
“Brian, Shahla would like to see where we pray.”1 The request wasn’t totally out of the blue. Shahla had been moved to tears a week earlier upon hearing from her friend Janice that our little group of...
View ArticleHow To Convince Yourself It’s Still Meditation When You’re Drinking Coffee
Begin slowly. Inhale and exhale deeply twice and then let your breath come naturally. Without judgment acknowledge that your first thoughts are about coffee. Let those thoughts drift away like...
View ArticleSurvival Mode
During the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, at the end of long days juggling work and caring for two homebound kids, when our boys were finally asleep, the kitchen cleaned, and the work problems...
View ArticleHow the Water Holds Us
My brother Bill tells me to put the thing on the thing and hands me a rope before he shuts down the runabout’s motor and allows momentum to carry us to his pier. I lean into his words, whisper his...
View ArticleBruner’s Romans Commentary: Listening to Paul’s Gospel among the Society of...
In his 2005 book Romans in Full Circle, Mark Reasoner traced the varying ways that interpreters across centuries and wide-ranging geographical locales—from Origen and Augustine to the Protestant...
View ArticleChristian Identity and the Hegemony of Mammon
In 2020, the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer was caught on camera by a teenage bystander. That video contributed to the conviction of Derek Chauvin for Floyd’s murder and...
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