By Andrew M. McGinnis Review of Abraham Kuyper, Honey from the Rock: Daily Devotions from Young Kuyper, translated by James A. De Jong (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018). P. xviii – 741. In the academic world there are several well-known “twoness theses”—arguments by scholars that there are in one historical person two identifiable and contradictory lines of thought that warrant depicting…
Reprinted from Regent College. We are excited to announce that as of May 1, 2019, ReFrame is now offered free of charge! We’re deeply grateful to all you who have supported ReFrame over the past four and a half years. Without your support we would not have been able to make this important shift. Join us in spreading this great news! Read all about the reasons for…
Those of you who subscribe to TGR via email just got a post that was meant for another blog, where I write about education research. Since it would have been a very offbeat post for TGR, and even contains some off-color language, I guess an explanation is in order. I just took over some administrative duties here at TGR and after…
By Mark Dalbey, reprinted from the Oikonomia Network Covenant Seminary in St. Louis has increased its commitment over the past decade to viewing and delivering theological education that emphasizes and values all vocations as vital to God’s mission of redeeming and restoring all things in Jesus Christ as reflected in Colossians 1:15-20. Joining the Oikonomia Network at the end of…
A curriculum for “Kidpreneur” has been developed and launched in the slums of Metro Manila. “We need to create new social movements in order to end poverty,” says Dr. Corrie Acorda-De Boer, cofounder of Mission Ministries Philippines (MMP). Among the poor, this mission has helped start more than one thousand early childhood preschools and programs, as well as holistic-oriented churches.…
Third in a series. I’ve made the case that we lack an account of what makes a social space a “public” space, and that this lacuna in our thinking helps explain two persistent problems that the faith and work movement has long wrestled with: failure to theologize well the particular kinds of social spaces in which most people do most of…
The “faith and work movement” in America is in danger of deepening the sacred-secular divide . . . by approaching and understanding church in some secularizing ways. If we want to find the sacred in the world – including in our workplaces – we must first find it in our churches. And when we do, our work can be revolutionized. That…
