A Review of James K. A. Smith, The Nicene Option James K. A. Smith has been in the business of “translation” for many years. He translated Jean-Luc Marion’s important book The Crossing of the Visible from the French (1991), helping English readers gain access to Marion’s profound phenomenology as he applied it to painting, icons, and…

If he is known for anything, John Webster’s name stands for “theological theology” and a fastidious, full-throated commitment to doing theology as if God mattered and as God continues to act. His much-discussed Oxford inaugural lecture heralded a reorienting of the theological task away from conversations or earlier correlations and back toward what could be…

Someone once said, “The seeds of change are planted in the questions that we ask.” If the statement is true, then we need to pay close attention to the questions themselves since they may give us a window into the world of people that we care about. Where do I belong? What is my purpose…

Sunday morning service had concluded, transitioning to a scene similar to church gatherings all over the world. Adults stood conversing, children ran laughing and playing, and the pastor extended warm welcomes to first-time visitors. I was one of those visitors, a guest speaker welcomed into the open-air church in the rural suburbs of Kampala, Uganda….