The Wesleys formed the Holy Club at Oxford as a protest against spiritual mediocrity. The protest did not contest doctrines or theology of the Anglican Church. Rather, it was… read more

The first book I fell in love with was Gone with the Wind. As a young reader, it was my first “adult” book, an epic tome, and being prone to the dramatic, I was swept… read more

“I Thought We Had Come Farther Than This”  My phone rang shortly after the President’s self-revelatory rant yesterday. With tears in his voice, a wise… read more

“[Schism] is evil in itself. To separate ourselves from a body of living Christians, with whom we were before united, is a grievous breach of the law of love. . . . It is… read more

They each had their faith shaken in a powerful storm. During a dark night of the soul, they both found assurance of God’s grace in a reading of Paul’s Letter to the… read more

In his new book, Luther vs. Pope Leo: A Conversation in Purgatory, Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College (Salem, Virginia), Paul R. Hinlicky, takes readers on a… read more