Lord’s Day Prayer 48

Our Father and Lord, we are a grateful family, belonging to a grateful people. We rejoice that we have the privilege of worshipping You tomorrow, and we are glad that we can mark the beginning of Your holy day, this feast day, with celebration, feasting, laughter and wine. We are grateful for our salvation in …

What Actually Is the Case

The title of McLaren’s book, A Generous Orthodoxy, comes from a phrase coined by Hans Frei. And while there are serious objections to what Frei argues for elsewhere, he certainly has a firm grasp on the nature of pre-critical Christian thought. As he puts it, “In the earlier Protestant interpretive tradition, we have noted, the …

Aboriginal Hip

“The patron saints of the counterculture idea are, of course, the Beats, whose frenzied style and merry alienation still maintain a powerful grip on the American imagination. Even forty years after the publication of On the Road, the works of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs remain the sine qua non of dissidence, the model for aspiring …