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2017-07-11T14:19:19-05:00

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Church in place

Last updated on: July 11, 2017 at 2:19 pm By Brad Roth

We spent the last week wandering around Boston. We lived in the city when we were first married, and it’s one of our favorite places. Down in South Boston, near a canal and a swathe of red brick warehouse buildings, we stumbled upon a little chapel: Our Lady of Good Voyage. It’s a shrine originally built for sailors and dock workers to stop and pray in the midst of their labors in an age when Boston would have been largely Catholic.... Read more

2017-07-13T09:25:54-05:00

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Faith, fear, and love

Last updated on: July 13, 2017 at 9:25 am By Brad Roth

Faith feels like the bottom dropping out of life. In a good way. I know, I know–faith is the “assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). But there’s so much mystery, so much that we can’t wrap our heads around, so much that confounds any attempt on our part to put together a faithful story. My faith gives me assurance, but not foreknowledge. Faith is a skittery thing–at least for me. I experience faith... Read more

2017-07-10T10:15:05-05:00

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Standing to hear the gospel

Last updated on: July 10, 2017 at 10:15 am By Brad Roth

I worshiped with a different congregation yesterday. They’re a church on the deep end of the liturgical tradition, which means they had an elaborate, sturdy ritual scaffolding to hold God’s people before God in prayer. The church was high-ceilinged, marbled, and gilt. There were columns and candles and a great throne for the bishop above which hung a shield with the word humilitas–humility–which I found strangely endearing. I love this sort of thing; I’m a high-church soul in a low-church ecclesiastical body.... Read more

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2017-07-10T22:37:44-05:00

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Which way?

Last updated on: July 10, 2017 at 10:37 pm By Brad Roth

A long time ago in a college far, far away, I took a philosophy course. I quickly came to admire my professor’s discipline, the strictness of his thought categories, the way he seemed to run his life along nice, straight lines. He had taught himself to draw a perfect circle freehand on the chalkboard. He used a ruler to underline events in his desk calendar. He had this orderly way of logicking in the world, and I liked his approach:... Read more

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2017-06-30T17:01:24-05:00

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On completing my to-do list

Last updated on: June 30, 2017 at 5:01 pm By Brad Roth

I arrived at an amazing place today: I completed my to-do list. (Okay, I still need to iron a few shirts, but close enough). In preparation for a summer sabbatical time that my congregation has kindly given me, I’ve been wrapping up loose ends and laying aside responsibilities. We’ve got some travel planned, but I’ve also set aside generous dollops of wide open time. A week ago someone asked me what I would do all summer. “Are you just going... Read more

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2017-08-04T20:58:57-05:00

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What is a call to ministry?

Last updated on: August 4, 2017 at 8:58 pm By Brad Roth

A long time ago in the big city, I was a graduate student studying the New Testament. My wife and I had another student and his wife over for supper, and we were talking shop: Bible and theology, church and history. Our friends were these passionate Presbyterians, and I was saying something judicious about finding the idea of ministry attractive, when he said to me, “So why don’t you go into ministry?” “Because I’m not called,” I demurred. “So get... Read more

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2017-06-08T09:23:01-05:00

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Book in hand! – God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church

Last updated on: June 8, 2017 at 9:23 am By Brad Roth

I’m excited to have in hand the Advance Reader Copy of my book, God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and The Future of the Rural Church, coming out September 19 from Herald Press! It’s beautiful. After nine months of writing and many more months of editing and rewriting, we’re almost there, and I wanted to share the joy. God’s Country sets forth a vision for vibrant rural congregations–congregations that often bear a profound sense of both loss and possibility. The book is rooted in stories... Read more

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God's Country: Faith Hope and the Future of the Rural Church

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2017-06-07T09:06:32-05:00

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Eat our way to joy

Last updated on: June 7, 2017 at 9:06 am By Brad Roth

Joy strikes out of the blue nothingness. You can’t expect it or manufacture it or capture it. For Christians, the completeness of our joy comes from Jesus. After he taught on his abiding in us and our abiding in him, he told the disciples, “I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete” (John 15:11, NRSV). Jesus didn’t give the disciples instruction on how to get their... Read more

2017-05-26T13:36:43-05:00

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Pray the Ascension

Last updated on: May 26, 2017 at 1:36 pm By Brad Roth

With the Ascension, the Incarnation is completed as Jesus bears his humanity into the fullness of God’s presence and power. Read more

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2017-05-25T09:18:47-05:00

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The snake’s greatest trick

Last updated on: May 25, 2017 at 9:18 am By Brad Roth

We often think about the Snake tempting Adam and Eve to do the wrong thing, but perhaps the Snake’s greatest trick was actually getting Adam and Eve to not do the right thing Read more

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