Frank Gehry is an architect that people love to hate, mainly because he is one of the few contemporary American architects who has become a “brand”–to the point that you keep waiting for a Gehry design line to start showing up in a Target store near you (a la Michael Graves). Associating your name with…
This semester I have the privilege of leading what is informally known in my department as “senior seminar”: a capstone course for our majors that gives us freedom to design a one-off course, usually focused on some aspect of our current research. In the fall semester this is focused on a topic; in the spring…
I’m just returning from a few days at the Society of Vineyard Scholars conference, which was exhausting but also a blessing. Good people with an exciting vision of how reflection can serve the church’s mission: sign me up for more of that. I’ve also never had a speaking engagement in which I’ve felt more cared…
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…