by Andy Patton | Oct 16, 2023 | Church and Ministry, Church Leadership, Church Life, Church Practices
I teach an unusual class at Covenant Seminary. It’s a lab of sorts, a three-hour stretch on Tuesday afternoons. In this intimate class, theology students try their hand at communicating both the truth and the ethos they’ve learned through their systematic theology,...
by Andy Patton | Oct 16, 2023 | Church, Church and Ministry, Church Life, Church Practices, General Theology, Jesus Christ
During the antebellum period of American history, enslavers wanted to feed their captive workers as cheaply as possible, and the least costly way of doing this was to give the enslaved the “waste foods” from the plantation, the raw parts of animals that were...
by Andy Patton | Oct 13, 2023 | Apologetics
It is no small thing to have a conversation with someone whose ideas you disagree with (or possibly find repugnant). It can be painful, confusing, and frustrating. We can enter difficult conversations with the most careful intentions, only to be dragged into a...
