Faith Across Traditions: Essays from Ten Years of Dialogue at Conciliar Post

Celebrating ten years of dialogue across Christian traditions at Conciliar Post (conciliarpost.com), Faith Across Traditionspresents essays on a wide variety of cultural topics and Christian perspectives. In a world of fundamentalisms that possess all the answers and a postmodernism that decries true answers, this volume represents the middle path of Conciliar Post, which aims to seriously, thoughtfully, critically, and faithfully reflect upon life, faith, and our world. Included essays and poetry speak to conversions and denominations, the Church calendar, ethics and the Christian life, faith in the public square, scripture and interpretation, tradition and traditions, sin and salvation, and sorrow and grief.Table of ContentsConversions and DenominationsWhy Would a Protestant Convert, CabeWhy I Didn’t Convert to Orthodoxy, HumphreyWhy I’m Not Reformed (But Admire Them Anyway), EhrettLex Orandi, Lex Credendi, KimThe Non-Denominational ReformationIs Protestantism a Heresy, CabeThe Logic of Closed Communion, EhrettDo You Have to Be Anti-Western to Be Eastern Orthodox, CabeAdventus, ByrkettThe Church CalendarOn the Advent of ChristChristmas Is About the Cross, AldhizerChristmas Is About the Incarnation, CabeRemembering Christmas, MaynardGod Is With Us, ByrkettThe Fast Before the Feast, KishiHoly Week, HylandWhat Day Did Jesus DieThrough the Rain, GrubbEthics and the Christian LifeThe Sermon on the Mount and Christian EthicsLet Justice Roll Down, JusticeWhat Re-Enchantment Really Means, EhrettJohn Wesley and Small Groups, DickeyRecovering Koinonia, WalkerToward a Spirituality of Christian Work, AldhizerA Christian Defense of Video Games, CasbergConfessions of a Single Mom, BarrettInsufficiency of Spontaneous Prayer, LandsmanA Sonnet on the Occasion of Super Tuesday, CasbergFaith in the Public SquareCould Liberals & Conservatives Follow the Same Christ, TillmanAn Open Letter to Christian Bakers in Indiana, JohnsonDear White Christians, It’s Time for Us to Listen, QuickSocial Justice Without Resurrection Is Dead, AldhizerGnostic Anthropology and Identity Politics, EhrettCRT and Its Dissidents, WalkerGod Remembers, LambertScripture and InterpretationNew Testament in OrderBooks Removed from the NT, BryanVisiting D.C.’s Museum of the Bible, EhrettAugustine on Biblical Interpretation, DickeyIn Praise of the English Bible, RebholtzMaccabees in the New Testament, BryanSola Scriptura’s Relevance, HallLongings, SchendelTradition and TraditionsDesert Fathers Play Pokémon Go, CasbergTradition Is the Answer to Questions We’ve Forgotten, WhiteActs of BaptismMary, Mother of God, Mother of the Church, HylandThings I’d Rather Do On Sunday Morning, CasbergWhat John Calvin Taught Me About the Sacraments, SchellhaseWhy Is Christian Liturgy So Repetitive, QuickThree Things That Need to Change About Church, WhiteWhat’s the Point of the Sermon, KimHow Should We Choose the Church We Attend, AldhizerEmpty Hands, ByrkettSin and SalvationThe Natural Desire to See God, WinterThe Pandemic and the Wrath of God, FletcherIt Is Not a Sin to Wear a Facemask, TownsendOn Original Sin and Racism, ClineThe Atonement of Irenaeus, BryanDare We Hope for the Salvation of All, WinterProblem of Predestination, AldhizerIs Christian Existentialism Unbiblical, TillmanA Poem to My Anxiety, SalemSorrow and GriefYou Are Not Okay, WhiteThoughts, Prayers, and Platitudes, QuickLongest Lent, ByrkettThe Lost Art of Evangelical Weeping, ClineWhy God Allows Spiritual Dryness, HallDealing with Pain and Suffering, McMeansArt of Grieving, Byrkett Read more