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Keith D. Stanglin A good chart, which can be an effective pedagogical aid, is typically and almost inevitably an oversimplification, particularly when the topic is history, and especially intellectual history. The less accurate ones are not so much an aid as a great foil in a class setting. Either way, they can provide occasion for real instruction. A chart taken from John Hannah, Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History I have long been amused by this image, taken fro

M. Todd Hall A father teaching his daughter to ride a bike: an embodied education [The incarnate Word] could never be learned if, at the same time, its meaning were not also grasped, and its meaning could not be grasped if it were not, also, incarnate in us. This is the basic invitation that Christ made, and continues to make to us, that we come to know the truth of this message through practicing it, down to the most minute detail.… To know the Gospels through seeking to pr

***UPDATE: Luke's excellent discussion is now on our YouTube page! Sociological research reflects what American Christians have observed for a long time: “most teenagers drop out of church when they become young adults.” But why do so many young people fall away from the church when they become adults? The answer is not simple; the causes are many. But research also suggests that this opting out begins earlier than many people realize, sometimes while kids are still at hom