Favorite Books in 2023: Part 1
Cory Thompson (Editor’s note: Over the next few weeks several Commission members will be sharing some of their favorite books they read in 2023. As we always say, inclusion of a title in no way signals a blanket endorsement by the individual Commissioner, or the Commission as a…
Addendum: Another Favorite Book from 2017
W. Jackson Watts Usually I manage to read a book or two during the holidays. Recently I read one I had wanted to read for years, but finally had an excuse to read it due to its pertinence to a current research project. It was Alister McGrath’s The…
Eschatology for the Now
by Kevin Hester I was not the student to whom my fellow commission member, Rev. Randy Corn, referred in his recent post The First Word on Last Things, but I could have been. My attitude about eschatology was one that saw it only as an intramural Christian debate…
Adam, Eve, and Maple Tree Leaves
by Kevin L. Hester I have the privilege of working at Welch College which is nestled in the historic Richland Village neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Every fall I am greeted with the brilliant yellows and bright reds of the neighborhood’s American maples. The beauty of this time of…