The Synoptic Gospels and a Postmillennial view of the future

The Synoptic Gospels and a Postmillennial view of the future Present-day evangelical theology often treats good works as consequences of salvation rather than as integral to it, a distinction that can weaken Christianity’s response to material suffering. By comparing premillennial and postmillennial expectations, Dorothy Day’s social ethics, and key passages in the Synoptic Gospels, this […]

Sports, Suffering and Tragedy

January 2004  Sports and suffering: A theology of sports and the meaning of life I know it’s old news, but I needed time to talk about it. After yet another year of excruciating losses by the Boston Red Sox and the Minnesota Vikings, I now feel the need to vent. I grew up in Brooklyn, […]

Social Justice as a Necessary Aspect of the Christian Faith

Social Justice as a necessary aspect of the Christian Faith Christian Existentialism Modernism: There is a stable, coherent, knowable self. The mode of knowing produced by the objective, rational self is “science,” which can provide universal truths about the world, regardless of the knower’s status. The knowledge science produces is “truth” and is eternal. Postmodernism: […]

Original Frontier Horizon Mission Statement

I wrote this extended Mission Statement back when FH was first created. A lot of unrealized dreams here, but not all. I love the last line, and it still holds true: We take Paul’s admonishment seriously: the only thing that really matters is “faith expressing itself through love” (Galatians 5:6). Our paramount goal is to […]

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