This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).

We may not all be mass-murdering Nazis. But we all have the same root sin that causes the most egregious criminal activity on the face of the earth. We all have the desire to be our own God.

What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?

The more awareness we have that we are weak and low and frail and incapable of doing this thing called life, the more perfectly we are positioned to meet the God of grace.

Jesus is the anti-Cain: a giver, not a taker.

This is an excerpt from “All Charges Dropped! Devotional Narratives from Earthly Courtrooms to the Throne of Grace,” written by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2022).

At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.

The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.

The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.

As the body positivity movement has gained traction, we must also be aware of some of its pitfalls

Yes, Adam and Eve both participated in sin. This was a joint effort of the two genders of mankind. They are both sinners. But the first sin wasn't letting the serpent in the garden.

God created humanity in his image and then inhabited that image. Not just for 33 years, but for eternity thereafter.