Socialism and Orthodoxy
A lot of people assume that socialism and religious orthodoxy don’t go well together. But...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Jan 8, 2019 | Theology and Socialism |
A lot of people assume that socialism and religious orthodoxy don’t go well together. But...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Dec 28, 2018 | Theology and Socialism |
In Episode 3, we asked whether rich people go to hell. What’s the temperature like there?...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Dec 27, 2018 | Theology and Socialism |
n Episode 2, we discussed the Year of Jubilee in Leviticus. We covered wealth distribution, wage...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Dec 26, 2018 | Theology and Socialism |
We started off in Fall 2018 with three episodes in our Socialist Vacation Bible School series. In...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Sep 26, 2018 | Gollwitzer |
My deepest thanks to the good folks at Theology Corner for producing this series of engagements...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Sep 24, 2018 | Gollwitzer |
This piece is part of a series of responses to the book Our God Loves Justice: An...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Sep 21, 2018 | Gollwitzer |
Rather than coddling his hearers in a November 16, 1938 sermon in Berlin, he told them what they needed to hear in the days following the barbarity of the Kristallnacht pogroms: “God is disgusted at the very sight of you.” We might say that Gollwitzer was doing theology “in and for the church,” but he certainly had a unique approach to doing so.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Sep 19, 2018 | Gollwitzer |
This piece is part of a series of responses to the book Our God Loves Justice: An...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Sep 17, 2018 | Gollwitzer |
Though reading one more twentieth-century German theologian will not be the decisive factor in this decisive moment, there are at least three good reasons to agree with McMaken that Gollwitzer can offer an important intervention for us now.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Sep 13, 2018 | Gollwitzer |
This piece is part of a series of responses to the book Our God Loves Justice: An...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Jul 24, 2018 | Apocalypse and Analysis |
On issues like immigration, people rightly sense that political differences are resulting from deep moral disagreement. But too many of our debates on these issues assume that we only disagree about procedures or tactics.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Feb 27, 2018 | Apocalypse and Analysis |
In a recent piece, Richard Allen responded to the manifesto of the revived organization Christians...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Jan 4, 2018 | Apocalypse and Analysis |
In the midst of a fierce struggle for control of the churches, the pro-Nazi “German Christian” faction preached sermons, edited Bibles, revised hymn-books, altered liturgies, and changed the church calendar. Sometimes they made drastic changes. At the same time, they inherited a form of Christianity that offered little opposition to Nazism.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Dec 4, 2017 | Apocalypse and Analysis |
In some parts of the Bible, rich people are portrayed as the worst kind of criminals. They grind...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Oct 24, 2017 | Apocalypse and Analysis |
The fundamental reality of racism is an imbalance of power, and the God revealed in Jesus faced that sort of problem head-on.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Waldron | Oct 4, 2017 | Apocalypse and Analysis |
Jesus said that we should love our neighbors, but it’s not as simple as it sounds. As a result,...
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