By Basil Grafas There and Then The Book of Revelation, unfortunately shrouded in mystery and confusion, is perhaps the most practical book in the Bible. It is the text God used to launch forth an army of martyr witnesses that neither Imperial Rome nor intransigent...
Without history and the perspective it provides, we are at the mercy of intellectuals and their ideas, even fads, that they promote to an unseeing, unreflective evangelical population. We live and decide based on conceptual toolkits with which we are provided....
As one trained and at home in the fields of history and theology, discussing exegesis, hermeneutics and Bible translation, may be something akin to waltzing through a minefield; inadvisable at best. Nevertheless, I stumbled on an old article by then Cardinal Ratzinger...
I am supposed to write with sagacity about peacemaking. Now, before I make a complete fool of myself, let me offer up a confession or two. First, I may know a thing or two about peacemaking, but I know it principally because I am skilled (I would say qualified) at...
I used to pastor a small, rural church in another denomination. There was a lot I liked about the work. We had people come to Christ and lives were changed. I learned the value of repentance and the value of community. On the other hand, we were a highly autonomous...
This is a long article, to fit your needs, it is downloadable as a PDf as well:Â Rediscovering the Revelational Church:PDF Introduction: The World in Search of Identity The following is a brief ecclesiological statement intended to serve as the basis for both a more...