“Fourteen Favorite Ways to Twist the Gospel” by Howard Snyder provides a balanced approach to understand the Gospel from both an Anabaptist and Wesleyan perspective. One of the reasons I appreciate Snyder is that he is a Wesleyan scholar who was deeply influenced by the Anabaptist tradition. You will see how these traditions comes together […]
Monthly Archives: December 2017
The Logic of Holiness
by Andrew Thompson “The Logic of Holiness” by Andrew Thompson provides a brief synopsis of Wesleyan holiness, salvation that I find compelling. For Wesley salvation was heart and life, inward and outward, personal and social and always in that order, never the other way around. Today, most theological traditions emphasize one or the other. For example, […]
Kinship
by Ryan Showalter A few weeks ago my wife and I took our eight-month-old foster son to Homegirl Cafe in downtown Los Angeles. As soon as we sat down our waitress recognized us from the last time and quickly swept up our son in her arms and proudly showed him off to all the other […]