Keith D. Stanglin If you haven't already subscribed to the Journal of Christian Studies, make sure you do today so you won't miss V/2, which is shipping this week! The theme of this issue is "Sin, Confession, and Repentance." Following is an excerpt from Keith Stanglin's article, "Are All Sins Equal?" See our previous post for the editor's note and table of contents. Are All Sins Equal? Keith D. Stanglin Center for Christian Studies Introduction In an age that calls evil good and good...

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 Lord’s Prayer. ...

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 in Protestant...