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I was both honored and intrigued when my friends at Comment approached me with an invitation to guest edit a special issue of the magazine. Their idea was to produce an entire issue inspired by the genre of Letters to a Young Calvinist. And so we came up with “Letters to a Young,” the March…

Later this week I’ll be heavily involved in the Calvin Symposium on Worship, an annual event organized by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. It regularly brings 1400 people, from across the continent and around the world, to west Michigan on the last weekend of January (!). This year the Congregational Resource Guide will be…

Here are a couple more video answers to some questions posed by readers at the Brazos Press Facebook Page. Q from Devan DeCicco: ‎“Calvinism” (as distinct from Reformed) has always been around – you could listen to Calvinist preachers on the radio and read their books. What, then, has caused this resurgence in interest? To…

I appreciated Peter Berger’s mention of my new book, Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy, over at his blog at The American Interest (HT: to my friend, Harry Lew). The context or foil is Rudolf Bultmann’s oft-cited (and much maligned) claim that underwrote the project of demythologization: “It is impossible to use electric…

Comment has just published my article on the work of local poet, John Rybicki. Here’s the opening snippet: I was chaining my bike outside Literary Life, our local treasure of an independent bookstore, and was delighted to run into Rick and Brenda Beerhorst, our resident neighbourhood artists and activists who have been catalysts for redemption…