Dear Dr. Todd, Thank you very much for your very eloquent and informative contribution to our Conversation. You may be interested to hear about my own experience regarding Pentecostalism. In the midst of my involvement in the Charismatic Movement in the 1970s, I entered the Master of Divinity program at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, […]
Dear Bob, In thinking about how to respond to your very engaging description of the spiritual life of Latter Day Saints, I’m reminded of a two-page hand-out that I developed for use in my teaching of Church History at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary. And with this, the grievously vexing, impossible-to-ignore question comes rushing back: If […]
Dear Farris, Thank you for your words about Black Christianity, and your deep concern about the wounds from the bitter experience of slavery in our land that have yet to be healed, and which continue to impede racial reconciliation here. I think my most helpful contribution to the ongoing discussion might be to share a […]
Dear Christopher, Thank you very much for your quite beautiful description of the Pietist spirit/ethos. I think, from an Orthodox perspective, there’s so much to be affirmed in the Pietist’s heart-cry, as I understand it, for deeply meaningful, ongoing, living experience with the Living God, abiding in deep personal communion with Him. And in and […]
Dear David, Thank you very much for your personal testimony of your conversion to Christ, and your very clear recognition and understanding that that was just the beginning of a lifetime of growing in Him. I very much liked how you wrote about “the task of learning how to become a faithful servant of a […]
Dear Wesley, I’m so glad you mentioned children, saying, “When I sit with my two grandchildren on my lap, my Reformed theology gets undone. The last thing in the world I want them to hear about is total depravity. Rather, I want them to begin knowing how much they are loved, and that in their […]
Dear Randall, Thanks for your posting. I was intrigued to learn about your spiritual journey. It made me think of how our Orthodox professor at Oral Roberts University guided us through Robert Webber’s landmark book, Common Roots: A Call to Evangelical Maturity, in 1978, the very year that book was published. Webber’s summons to Evangelicals […]
Thank you very much, Dr. King, for your efforts to bring some order of understanding to what seems to be the very complicated and divided landscape of the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement in America. Your providing the link to the 24-point statement of belief given in the 1995 Mennonite Confession of Faith was very helpful. I’m especially […]
Dear Mark, Thank you for your well thought out and articulate description of how people in various strands of Lutheranism understand how to follow Jesus. I appreciate how you are always trying to find points of contact with other expressions of Christianity. It certainly is interesting to learn that Luther allowed a continuation of more […]
Dear Christina, Thank you very much for your heartfelt and forthright recounting of the journey into traditional Roman Catholicism that you and your family have made. And thank you also for your frank assessment of social justice efforts on the part of the contemporary Roman Church. Since you’ve told us your basic story, I’ll share […]
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