Many, many years ago I sat in a chapel service at Judson College (now University) that featured a musical group called “Truth.” I had a mad crush on one of the altos who helped run their product table; otherwise I might have never attended. In my desire to hold a meaningful conversation with her after […]
Church & Society: The Barmen Declaration
The Barmen Declaration and the once and future Confessing Church
“Thus alone is the Church renewed…”: 2016 and the Barmen Declaration
Rumor has it that on an early summer afternoon in 1934 Karl Barth took a snifter of fine brandy, five stout Brazilian cigars, a manual typewriter and a sheaf of paper and began to flesh out the essential draft of the “Theological Declaration of Barmen[i].” (It is also rumored that Barth finished the document that […]