REMEMBERING Meditations on the Past, Part 1 Adria and I are recently returned from time in Europe. We visited among other places Berlin, Prague, and Vienna. In these places we were confronted with …| Peripatetic Pastor
Choosing Unity instead of Conformity Unity and Conformity In church disputes—and there are always church disputes—it is easy to confuse conformity with unity. They are not the same. Unity acknowled…| Peripatetic Pastor
A Review of “Materialists” by Celine Song The title of Celine Song’s new movie is apt. She portrays a Manhattan culture of unapologetic materialism. What matters is money, youth, good l…| Peripatetic Pastor
GRACE FOR AN ANGRY WORLD I’m back. Having spent much of the past couple of months traveling—more on that in subsequent posts—I’ve had the chance to return to the topic I’ve been considering off and…| Peripatetic Pastor
BAD THEOLOGY, PART THREE I began this series of posts with a question: How has it happened that evangelical Christianity has so enthusiastically embraced Donald Trump. At first glance, this would n…| Peripatetic Pastor
The church we attend in Tucson, St. Philip’s in the Hills (don’t you love church names with directions in them), includes in its weekly worship schedule a choral evensong service. The short service…| Peripatetic Pastor
In my last post—a short introduction to this series of blogs I’m calling Bad Theology—I asked why evangelical Christians seemed so susceptible to the blandishments of Donald Trump and his allies. W…| Peripatetic Pastor
Tim Alberta opens his bestselling book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (HarperCollins 2023), by recounting a February 2021interview with Chris W…| Peripatetic Pastor
Since all God’s divine power has been given to us, the power of life and godly living, through knowing the one who called us by [or “to”] his own glory and virtue [and] through which we have been g…| Peripatetic Pastor
For the last long while in this blogspace, I have mostly had my nose to the proverbial grindstone, sharpening my responses to decisions made by recent Christian Reformed synods—synods which adopted…| Peripatetic Pastor
Lynden (2024). Documentary directed by Chris Baron and Bryan Tucker. Limited release in theaters in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up in Lynden, Washington. The town was much smaller then than now. …| Peripatetic Pastor
