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Hi from Glenn! I hope you are having a great day! I have two quick points, and a request… FIRST, my interview with Brian Peckford is up. Brian is a fascinating guy who was instrumental in creating the…
Conducting teach-ins on various topics related to race and history is one of my favorite ways to share information, and I hope it’s helpful to you. But takes a ton of prep, and I can only keeping doing…
Today’s reading, for Wednesday of Week 26, is paragraphs 5-13 of Article XXIII of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession. 5] And nevertheless they do not seriously defend celibacy. For they are not ignorant…
In my recent post (a day ago?) I wrote about “lessons” and universal messages. Make of them what you will (even if you’re not a spiritual type, I think we all get that life flows in particular ways based…
Colossians 1 | Jeremiah 18 | Deuteronomy 26 | Proverbs 29
When I first started CrossTalk I had 2 goals in mind. Write every week for a year Be an encouragement to one person a week. And today is a special day…. we’ve done it. This edition marks 1 year straight…
By Kevin Barrett, for the upcoming (July) issue of Crescent International On June 8, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that the battle for Severodonetsk would decide the fate of eastern Ukraine…
Paid Subscribers: You can listen to me read preach rant this essay for you as part of The Secret Field Notes Podcast, Episode 28. (This is a private podcast feed of occasional Field Notes essays for paid…
One who does not let our feet slip – Ground us, and keep us among the living. May all the earth make a joyful noise to You…singing Your name’s glory and giving You glorious praise. Ground us, and keep…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how the understanding of my faith is changing. It’s exciting for me to expand my understanding of God. I’ve been inspired by several authors, theologians, and others…
Note: The previous version of this newsletter that went out contained an unacceptable amount of typos. My apologies! This version is cleaner. Thanks to Richard Rittenbaugh for pointing this out to me.…
As I teach and train about spiritual formation one of the things I talk about a lot is what I call "the imperative to virtue gap." Specifically, when it comes to spiritual formation we tend to traffic…
Photo by Delia Ra on Unsplash “Cormac McCarthy,” John Piper once commented, “is to the American literary canon what Judges is to the biblical canon.” Much like the biblical book of Judges, the novels of…
I apologize for failing to answer all the questions I have received; some I will get to in future installments (though I can’t promise to get to all of them). Just as a reminder: those who wish to submit…
Hello, this is Aaron and welcome back to the podcast. Huge news last week with the reversal of Roe vs Wade, which to me is almost a surreal surreal event. Because I almost can't even believe that it ……
My dad died on September 8, 2014. He collapsed on the 6th and was rushed to the hospital. My mom and I were trading emails back and forth about his condition all day on the 7th. When it was clear it wasn…