This Week in the Reformed Journal: Reviewing 2021 and More
Our Top Ten: 2021 — blog.reformedjournal.com After 365 blogs this year, here are our ten most read blogs of 2021. Happy New Year!
One problem with these top ten lists is they leave out much of our best work. Scott Hoezee’s tribute to his old professor Wally Bratt was a masterpiece and one of my favorite blog posts of 2021. You will be touched reading this.
In Memoriam — blog.reformedjournal.com As many of us are aware, it is twenty years ago right now that the first brilliant installment of Peter...
This week Jane Zwart graced us with a lovely poem. I especially liked the interplay between “light that breaks” and “braking the day.” Jane is the unofficial poet laureate of Calvin University, and I’m happy she’s a part of our 2021 efforts.
O Oriens — reformedjournal.com O Oriens: Light that breaks, that cracks the void; match for God to phosphoresce with gust of words.
We started the week with the third essay this year by Howard Schaap. This one, like the others, is a little stick of dynamite. Howard is a keen observer of the cultural landscape and an interesting writer and I want to make sure you saw this.
Reformed and Always…Deconstructing? — reformedjournal.com But in reformed worldview conversations, that adjective “reformed” means we’re committed to something more. We’re committed to complexity, committed to deconstruction, and to reforming again beyond that deconstruction, committed to listening to opposing voices to not only hear what they have to say but to take to heart their critiques, to even call them prophetic when they are. It means we can admit when we’re wrong and that we’re not even afraid of ideas that seem to challenge scripture. It means we’re committed to ideas and people, too.
Finally, there’s a new book out by Eugene Peterson, which is strange news since he died a couple of years ago. How is that possible? Read the review and find out.
On Living Well: Brief Reflections on Wisdom for Walking in the Way of Jesus — reformedjournal.com On Living Well gives us Peterson from the 1970s and 1980s, when he was at the height of his pastoral ministry, saying what needed to be said. These are words worth repeating.
Here’s to 2022, whatever it may bring.
Happy Reading!
Jeff Munroe
Editor