In Hosea 2, we find a beautiful promise of restoration immediately after God’s judgment against Israel’s infamous infidelity. The language in the promise is that of the New Creation. “On that day” God will reclaim the adulteress Israel. The Lord
The Twentysomething Soul #3 – Evangelical Protestants
We have entered the Advent season, so this post comes with the prayer that your Advent preparations bring blessing to yourself and others. I continue to mull over the findings of Tim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley in The Twentysomething Soul. Let’s
The Twentysomething Soul #2 – Mainline Protestants
This is the second installment of thoughts on the book, The Twentysomething Soul: Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults, (Oxford, 2019). See the previous post if you’d like to see the start. I now consider what the authors
The Twenty-something Soul (#1)
Recently, I have been mulling over a new book by Tim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley, The Twenty-something Soul: Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults (Oxford U. Press, 2019). I’ve read some of Clydesdale’s other work (The First
What to Make of Recent UM School Hires?
Two United Methodist-related schools have gotten some attention lately because they have hired non-Christian chaplains. Emory University’s new Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life, Gregory McGonigle, is a Unitarian. Shenandoah University in Virginia has added Hanaa Unus as Chaplain and