“The Song in the Night,” date unknown. Sermons—Miscellaneous, Q-Z, Box 2, Folder 14, Carl F. H. Henry Collection, Gleason Archer Archives, Deerfield, Illinois. This story, of the angels and the shepherds, opens at night. It is the story of darkness and fright, which ends in exultation and jubilee. Life has many chapters like that, but…

“Who’s afraid of angels, Satan, and demons?” Indeed, angelology and demonology are among some doctrinal loci which unfortunately have not been receiving as many treatments as they should have been in the evangelical academic and popular circles alike, in both Western and Eastern contexts. However, through his second contribution to the Foundations of Evangelical Theology…

Elijah’s rapture by a burning chariot pulled by burning horses is one of Scriptures most captivating images. Besides inspiring a film title, the phrase “chariots of fire” continues to circulate as an invocation of a powerful mystical experience. For Reformation theologians like the German Johannes Piscator (1546–1625), Elijah’s ascent provides an opportunity for typological exegesis, that…

Seraphim —after Dzvinia Orlowsky This is the hour of churchyard haze, the slow light of the sun gathered around the heads of saints. Dusk pauses to gather songbirds in a grey sack. I am a sanctuary, razed by fire. The priests being to descend, one by one, to pick through my debris for sins. I…