You will likely not be surprised to hear that I have been talking again with the Crackers & Grape Juice crowd (specifically Jason and Johanna), this time about Karl Barth’s Homiletics book which emerged from his lectures on preaching during the Nazi rise to power in the early ’30s. We talk about the tension betweenContinue reading “Crisis Preaching for Barthians”
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Reading Barth Together: Session IV
We had our fourth Reading Barth Together webinar this morning, talking through the third article of the Apostles Creed in Dogmatics in Outline. You can watch it here on my YouTube Channel. You can read the compiled questions here: –Will
Coronatide Resident Aliens
I appeared on the Just Us. podcast to talk about Resident Aliens. They describe this episode thusly: “It’s day __? of the pandemic, and the future is still very uncertain, giving many of us a great deal of anxiety. So we felt like everyone could use a bit of a break on this episode byContinue reading “Coronatide Resident Aliens”
Reading Barth Together: Session III
We had our third webinar this morning, covering Barth’s discussion of the second article of the Apostles Creed—”I believe in Jesus Christ…”—in chapters 10-20 of Dogmatics in Outline. If you were not able to attend the live stream, you can now watch it on my YouTube channel: And here is an updated document with theContinue reading “Reading Barth Together: Session III”
RBT Email 2
We’ll be starting our third session of Reading Barth Together shortly (5/19 @10 AM EST); you can log on here, but we’ll be posting it on my YouTube Channel as quickly as we can. And this is the newsletter I sent out this week: (If you would like to receive these, check out the ContactContinue reading “RBT Email 2”
Reading Barth Together: Session II
We had our second session of the Reading Barth Together webinar series today, covering chapters 5-9 of Dogmatics in Outline. You can watch it on my YouTube channel here. Here is a document of questions submitted for consideration during the webinar: Stanley closed with this prayer which I share with you now: God of Time,Continue reading “Reading Barth Together: Session II”
RBT Session 2 Preparation
The second Reading Barth Together webinar on Dogmatics in Outline with me and Stanley is Tuesday morning (5/12@10 AM EST). We’ve been able to increase the capacity to 1000 participants, so I hope that there will be enough room for everyone. We’ll be covering Barth’s Doctrine of God which is in Chapters 5-9. You canContinue reading “RBT Session 2 Preparation”
RBT Email 1
I sent this out today to participants in the webinar but am also posting here in case anyone was not able to access the webinar enough to submit an email address. If you would like to receive these, check out the Contact page. Stanley and I were delighted that so many of you chose toContinue reading “RBT Email 1”
On the Incarnation
My friend Daniel Childs who pastors Kindred Church in Chapel Hill invited me to share a catechetical sermon about who Jesus is through Kindred’s podcast feed with his congregation this morning, so I thought I’d share it with y’all too. You can listen to it on Podbean, Apple, or Spotify. It’s also embedded below. –Will
Expanded RBT Webinar Capacity
Thanks to the tireless efforts of my colleagues at Duke Divinity School, I’m happy to announce that all future sessions of Reading Barth Together will have room for 1000 participants to join instead of the 500 we had last week, leaving a number of folks unhappy at being unable to join. I hope that thisContinue reading “Expanded RBT Webinar Capacity”
