Ep. 22

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What is it about wine that has for so long captivated us and which in its own way seems to put on display the very vulnerability and vitality of the human condition?

Ep. 20

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What does the exodus event have to do with contemporary concerns with divorce, domestic violence, biblical law, and the identity of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ?

Ep. 19

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An often and routinely overlooked part of Anselm's genius was his expression of the fervency and final satisfaction of our desire—our holiest desires—and the consequent shape, dynamic, and nature of perfected love.

Ep. 18

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What does the Sacramental table have to do with the confession of Lord Jesus Christ, and the Reformed catholicity?

Ep. 17

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Is Paul's famous Areopagus speech in Acts 17 a model for the Church's engagement with other religions? How so, or how not?

Ep. 16

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With a view to recent developments in Old Testament studies, today’s Greystone Conversations episode reflects on what difference those developments should have on what’s happening in the seminary and Bible college classroom.

Ep. 13

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We do not realize just how extensively we assume things about reality in modern and western terms until, as close readers, we run up against the very different world not only at work in Scripture but persistently commended to us in Scripture.

Ep. 11

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In what ways does the final vision of the Church’s identity and activity at the end of Scripture in Revelation help us to understand the beginning of Scripture in Genesis in light of Leviticus?

Ep. 10

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How can the Church’s embrace of space within the biblical ritual world amount to a commitment to the visible gathered Church which proclaims the truth of belonging and home to a world struggling with a loss of place and with homesickness?

Ep. 9

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Our world is currently overwhelmed with cries for protests and resistance, and the confessional Reformed church often sits uneasily between a recognition of the place and need for certain cries of this sort and the equally important need to distance herself.

Ep. 8

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How might biblical ritual ontology and theology help us clearly and consistently proclaim the gospel of the incarnate Savior and his love for his confessing, singing, eating Body?

Ep. 6

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Today’s Church is in great need of reimagining the nature of theological education; a reassessment of its purpose, not as merely the pursuit of a degree, but as education in the classical sense of formation.

Ep. 5

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In what way should we understand the New Testament and the Church's proclamation of Lord Jesus Christ as a proclamation that takes place according to the Scriptures?

Ep. 4

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Does the Old Testament continue to function for the church as Holy Scripture, and if so, how? This is a key question for the church’s faith and life.

Ep. 3

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To what world do the most thoughtful and effective responses to racism belong? Perhaps it is the world in which attacking the roots of racism can look like picking up a shovel and honoring the Lord’s Day.

Ep. 2

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As readers and confessors of the Apostles' Creed, we live in a fallen and sinful world of suspicion and of distrust that far too often finds expression in our inability to hear one another in a context of communal or Christian discourse.

Ep. 1

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According to Scripture, the communicative life we have as God's image-bearers is strategically and providentially ordered to the concerns of God's law.