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The Journal of Christian Studies volume 5, issue 2 will be shipping soon! The theme of this issue is "Sin, Confession, and Repentance," and in this issue we invited reflections on the theology of sin, including also confession of sin and repentance. Below is Keith's Editor's Note and the articles in JCS V/2. Subscribe today to make sure you receive this issue! As a reminder, a subscription to JCS, both digital only and digital + print, receive access to the entire catalog of

by Keith D. Stanglin Ivan Kramskoi, Christ in the Wilderness Over twenty years ago, a former Roman Catholic, who was new a member of the Church of Christ where I once served as a minister, expressed to me his appreciation for our church’s respect for Scripture and for the simplicity of the worship assembly. But I remember one Sunday, while speaking with him in the building’s foyer, he asked me about something that truly puzzled him. He wanted to know why we didn’t say the L

Visible Signs of Invisible Grace: Sacraments for the “Low Church” (Part 5) by Keith D. Stanglin See Parts One , Two , Three , and Four of this series. These posts are adapted from my essay, “Visible Signs of Invisible Grace: Sacraments for the ‘Low Church,’” in Distinguishing the Church: Explorations in Word, Sacrament, and Discipline , ed. Greg Peters and Matt Jenson (Eugene: Pickwick, 2019), 69–92. In my previous posts, I discussed the demotion of baptism and eucharist i