God’s Death on All Saints’ Day

God’s Death on All Saints’ Day

  On Saturday, November 1, 1755, at 9:40 a.m., the premodern God, along with the Satan-God that is occasionally unleashed to do the dirty work, died in Lisbon. The death of the vengeful and merciless deity of the medieval world, along with the personification of...
Jesus, the Down-to-Earth God

Jesus, the Down-to-Earth God

Much of the wrestle with my calling to Christian ministry has been against the forms it has taken in the North American church. As a woman of humble beginnings, I was glad to know Jesus could relate, only to find out some preachers didn’t want to. I’ve always found it...
The Trinity Incarnating

The Trinity Incarnating

Doctrinal wars over the Trinity were conflicts during the early centuries of Christianity to define God as a single being in three coequal, coeternal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These conflicts, particularly the Arian controversy—which saw Jesus...