Thinking After

Tag: Hauerwas

  • Eerdmans Kindle Sale

    Publisher W.B. Eerdmans is currently offering the Kindle version of many of their bestsellers for between $2 and $4.  If you don’t mind reading a book on a screen, it could be a great time to build up your library and add some titles to your COVID reading list.  Here are some of the titles on sale that I would recommend (in no particular order): (more…)

  • Reading Barth Together

    What the church will look like after the COVID pandemic has run its course is hard to say.  Will modern society’s confrontation with its own mortality lead to genuine pursuit of deeper truth or will it lead to a doubling down on the human project of getting out of life alive?  Will social distancing cultivate a hunger for more meaningful forms of community and authentic relationships or will the move that many congregations have made to online platforms further reinforce our worst consumerist proclivities?  It is perhaps too early to tell. (more…)

  • Living Well, Dying Well

    I had the privilege of preaching at Niverville Community Fellowship this morning.  In November, I will be presenting series of seminars in their adult education program on ethical issues surrounding Medically Assisted Dying.  However, from a Christian perspective, it’s impossible to ask what it might mean to die a good death, if you don’t first consider what it means to live a good life.  Hence the title of my upcoming series, “Living Well, Dying Well.”  In advance of that series I preached a sermon this morning that brought Psalm 8, Genesis 3:1-7 and Hebrews 2:5-18 into conversation.  You can watch the sermon here.  (The sermon begins around the 36 minute mark.)

  • Thank You for Making “Minding the Web” the Top Seller in Christian Ethics

    Amazon’s Bestsellers in Christian Ethics

    Thank you to all my friends and supporters who have helped to make Minding the Web the top selling book in Canada on Amazon in the category of Christian Ethics.  For those who have not yet acquired a copy, the special sale price on the Kindle version of the book is available for one more day.  Be sure to tell your friends!

  • Flash Sale on “Minding the Web”

    Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections is being featured by Wipf and Stock this week as part of an October ebook flash sale.  Readers in the United States can get a hold of the Kindle version for under $3 here.  Canadian readers can purchase the Kindle version for under $4 here.  The offer expires on Friday, so you’ll need to move quickly!

  • Hauerwas on His “Frightening” Friendship with Jean Vanier

    Faith and Leadership have published a lovely piece by Stanley Hauerwas on his friendship with Jean Vanier.  The following is an excerpt in which Hauerwas recounts the first time he heard the L’Arche founder speak: (more…)

  • It’s Still the End of the World!

    It was able to share an enjoyable evening last night with an engaged group of people at the McNally Robinson bookstore in Winnipeg.  One of the things I was attempting to do in my lecture was to recover the eschatological character of the Christian faith, bound up as it is with the coming of Messiah and the pouring out of the promised Spirit.  The irruption of the eschaton introduces the distinction between church and world, which is clearly elucidated by Hauerwas and Willimon in the following quote which appeared in my lecture: (more…)

  • Minding the Web on Kindle

    Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections by Stanley Hauerwas with Robert J. Dean is now available for Kindle on Amazon.

  • America’s and Niverville’s Best Theologians

    I was caught by surprise this morning when upon opening the town newspaper, the Niverville Citizen, I was confronted by my own face and that of Stanley Hauerwas staring back up at me.  The article fittingly appears directly above a piece on the “Bear-y Holiday Musical” staged by the local elementary school, in which my kids participated.  You can read the full article here. (more…)

  • A Poor Church-Growth Strategy? (Series on “Minding the Web”)

    “That we are taught to confess our sin, particularly during Lent, is not something to which we look forward. We are not at all sure an emphasis on sin is a good idea. We are in a time of a dramatic loss in membership in mainline Protestantism. We need to attract new people. Telling people they are possessed by sin does not sound like a good church-growth strategy. (more…)