Church History Matters
As a new school year begins and I look at my students, most in my classes for some liberal arts requirement, I find myself making the same opening day plea once more: “Yes, church history really does...
View ArticleReading the Scriptures with the Reformers: Romans 1-8
Have you ever studied a Robert Silvers photograph? When Silvers was a student at the MIT Media Lab in the 1990s, he invented an art form. He merged ancient mosaic with modern photography and...
View ArticleA History of Spiritual Angst
I just finished teaching a week-long intensive church history survey, and I was struck once again by a pattern I’ve noticed among theologians. The pattern is especially noticeable when I teach the...
View ArticleDivine Call and the Historic Struggle over Women’s Roles
In a previous Catalyst blog entitled “The Biblical Basis for the Ordination of Women in the Wesleyan Tradition,” I described various patterns of women’s leadership evident in the NT and historic early...
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood
“You want me to finish this book,” I said to my husband. It was early in March 2020—just one month before my manuscript deadline and just days before COVID-19 shut down the world. At the time I was an...
View ArticleThe United in United Methodist
It may come as a surprise to the uninitiated in United Methodist history that the word United was not originally, formally associated with “the people called Methodists.” When and why did United come...
View ArticleBuilding a Theological Library: Historical Theology
St. Vladimir’s Popular Patristics Series Building a historical theology library must begin with primary sources. I know that many of you are looking to this series for recommendations of recent...
View ArticleCreation, Culture, and a Missional Approach to Church History
The term “church history” immediately conjures up a collage of images: Gothic script and stone cathedrals; flowing vestments, gleaming chalices, bones, and books. The thing is, most conventional...
View ArticleConfronting Eurocentrism in Christian Historiography
In his letter to the church at Corinth, Paul used the analogy of the human body to describe the interdependence of the church of Jesus Christ. Paul’s motivation was so that the Corinthian church...
View Article“Sheer Peacefulness”: Reflections on the Revival of 2023 from a Historical...
God is doing a mighty work right before our eyes! The revival currently taking place at Asbury University, Lee University, and other places throughout the US seems, to many people, to have come out of...
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