Recommended Books (Summer 2025)
This summer we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please leave us your favorite reads in the...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Incarnational Ethic
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most proactive pastors and ministry leaders in twentieth-century Germany. Bonhoeffer was a faithful pastor, theologian, and an influential leader during the challenges that German churches faced during the Second World War. Bonhoeffer said concerning an incarnational approach to ethics, “The subject matter of a Christian ethic is God’s reality revealed in Christ becoming real among God’s...
In Honor of Zach Maloney
For the past eight years, we have been delighted to have Zach Maloney serve as a regular contributor to the Helwys Society Forum. June 2022 marked the end of Zach’s time as a regular contributor as he focuses more on his work as a hospice chaplain. Therefore, we wanted to use this post to highlight some of Zach’s contributions to the site and show our gratitude for his work before taking a hiatus for about a month. ––––– My...
Political Ethics from 1 Timothy 2:1–8
We have recently experienced another tumultuous election season. “Don’t remind me,” you’re thinking. Now I recognize that talking politics is risky business. And yet I also recognize that the Scriptures are sufficient for life and godliness. This principle means that God’s Word has a word for all Christians at all times. It does not necessarily mean that the Scriptures address every contingency specifically. But it does mean that...
Recommended Books (Autumn 2020)
Explorers have fallen on hard times in our culture. Perhaps we were so dazzled by the extent of our nineteenth- and twentieth-century feats that our capacity to wonder at the challenge of adventure has been short-circuited. More likely, though, most Americans, who are soaked in luxury and decadence, have lost the will to shed their cushy lifestyles and embrace the sacrifice of exploration. For, to survive perilous journey, we must...
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