Reading a Liturgy of Confession: Liturgy as Forma Formans

The form worship takes reveals has certain assumptions about how people learn built into it. Reading liturgy from a formalist perspective, one that pays attention to form, reveals much about what those assumptions are.

Caleb Molstad | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Spring 2019

Knowing Christ through Musical Worship

I don’t know whether this connection is deep and natural for others, but for me, it has always made sense: God and song, song and God.

Lilian Chow | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2015

Confession as Freedom

I would suggest that, logically, those who are the most enslaved are those who don’t even know that they’re slaves.

Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

Squirming in the Pew: A Confession

The issue is that we, as post-Emergent Church Worshipers, seem to view corporate worship as dependent upon our emotional response to it.

Brynn Elliot | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

A Catholic Confesses

Confession works even when I don’t expect or believe it will.

Jane Thompson | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

Why Do I Need to Confess My Sins to a Priest?

One of the questions that many people often ask Catholics is, “Who do you need to confess your sins to a priest to receive forgiveness?"

Fr. Mark Murphy | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

Review of Peter Enns’ “The Bible Tells Me So”

According to biblical scholar Peter Enns, many Christians are wrong about the nature of the book they consider Scripture.

Peter Hickman | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

The Gift of Confession

The desire to confess may seem counter-intuitive. Obviously the seeker-sensitive movement assumed this was the last thing non-Christians wanted to do.

James K. A. Smith | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

Does God Play Dice?

How could God (knowingly, deliberately) create a process that brings about outcomes that He Himself does not know and cannot predict?

Stephen Mackereth | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

June 2019