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Myles Werntz
Myles Werntz is associate professor of theology and director of Baptist Studies at Abilene Christian University, where he teaches in the Graduate School of Theology. He is the author and editor of several books in Christian theology and Christian ethics, most recently From Isolation to Community (2022) and A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence (2022). He lives in Abilene with his wife and two sons, and writes regularly at Christian Ethics in the Wild.
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You Don’t Need a Rule of Life
What you need is a church.
Homeschooling for the Common Good
I never thought I’d be a homeschool parent, not least because I support public education. An improbable shift changed my perspective.
Scarcity’s Strange Gifts
Church attendance is down. Giving is iffy. Ministers are tired. But God is with us in lean times too.
Particular Wrongs Need Particular Remedies
Every sin requires Christ’s atonement. But the Bible shows God punishing—and repairing—different sins differently.
Review
Truth from Power
David E. Fitch’s Reckoning with Power offers Christians a purer model of power but misreads how power operates in the ministry of the church.
This Is the Violent World in Which Christ Commands Peace
The horror of terrorism reminds us anew of how impossible it feels to love our enemies.
Church Is Life Together or Not at All
It’s time for evangelicals to rediscover Bonhoeffer’s best-known work on the nature of Christian community.
Jemar Tisby: Three Words Should Guide Our Pursuit of Racial Justice
In his latest book, the “Color of Compromise” author turns from the lessons of history to the proper Christian response.
Rethinking Apostolicity
In the light of world Christianity.
Ignorance: How It Drives Science, Part 3
A meeting ground for science and theology.