Newsletter #2

On Unity and Imagination

A note to future parents: when people tell you that you won’t get any sleep with an infant in the house, believe them!

Who Said Arminians Don’t Believe in Providence?

Last fall, a few church members took the initiative to tidy up and reorganize our church’s library. The project has taken longer than expected (don’t they all?), but it’s yielded some fruit, including a book previously unknown to me, The Unity and Disunity of the Church by Geoffrey Bromiley. No matter how under-resourced or underutilized a church library, there’s always a few gems hidden within.

The topic or title of this book will interest some, as it did me. But so did the author. Bromiley is the late historian-theologian responsible for co-editing the most widely used English version of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics, which is among the two or three most discussed theological works of the twentieth century. Yes, that Bromiley. And here was a little dilapidated yellow book bearing his name.

What’s providential about this is…