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Moral Formation Involves the Head and the Heart—Simultaneously
Humans engage their intellect and emotions simultaneously. How does that bear on our spiritual formation through the Psalms?
Part of the Purifying Ourselves: Moral Formation in the Bible series
Fire, Soap, and Knives: The Book of Proverbs as a Means to Virtue
You have probably seen a version of this commercial. The first one I watched shows a man take a bite…
Part of the Purifying Ourselves: Moral Formation in the Bible series
The Therapeutic Use of Lamentations after Collective Trauma
Lamentations is a gift to soothe our personal griefs and secure our membership in a cloud of suffering witnesses to the faithfulness of God.
But Was Abraham Good? Ethical Complexity and Moral Reasoning in Genesis
We may take for granted that characters in the Book of Genesis, as in many stories, each manifest certain desires,…
Part of the Purifying Ourselves: Moral Formation in the Bible series
Worship in the Bible Often Looks Strange. How Can It Inform Modern Worship?
How much of our worship is “biblical”? Is worship in the Bible even a good barometer for evaluating worship practices?
We Should Regard These Two Overlooked Women as Biblical Matriarchs
The honorable Zilpah and Bilhah stand in the shadows of their mistresses Leah and Rachel and have been undeservedly unremembered.
Becoming Disciples: Moral Formation as Gift and Task
The gift of discipleship carries with it the task of actively and strenuously seeking to become the disciples God desires.
Part of the Purifying Ourselves: Moral Formation in the Bible series
Answering War, Violence, and Evil with the Imprecatory Psalms
The recent invasion of Ukraine by order of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has confronted the world with heartbreaking images of…
The Redemption of Naomi in the Book of Ruth
Leon Kass and Hannah MandelbaumReading Ruth: Birth, Redemption, and the Way of Israel Paul Dry Books, 2021. The making of…
How the ‘Angry Psalms’ Fit within the Story of God and His People
The theological coherence and moral intelligibility of the imprecatory psalms is grounded in the story within which they prayerfully participate.
