Between Babel and Pentecost: What Kind of Future Are We Building?
At Babel we try to secure our future through what we build; at Pentecost the Spirit forms a community we cannot manufacture.
Between Babel and Pentecost
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Formation · Articles & Essays
Longer reflection for faithful practice.
Articles and essays that give leaders and communities room to think, wrestle, and practice.
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The Cost of Convenience: AI, Creation, and Our Neighbors
Consider the workers, communities, and creation whose burdens can be hidden beneath technological convenience.
Between Babel and Pentecost
Open resource →The Work That Is Ours to Do: AI and the Pastoral Vocation
Pastoral ministry is more than completing tasks: AI invites us to reconsider vocation, leadership, and the ministry of the whole church.
Between Babel and Pentecost
Open resource →A Companion in Thinking, Not a Substitute for Wisdom
Explore how AI can challenge an emerging biblical interpretation without assuming the responsibilities of wisdom or proclamation.
Between Babel and Pentecost
Open resource →Bearing Witness in a World of Fabricated Voices
The church is called to preserve truth through shared discernment, faithful witness, and reformation according to the Word of God.
Between Babel and Pentecost
Open resource →Mission and the Shalom of Christ
Explore Christ’s shalom and the questions that connect committee work with discipleship, belonging, justice, care, and faithful change.
What Is This For?
Open resource →Advent Watchfulness Without Forced Cheerfulness
Isaiah 40:1–11; Luke 1:26–56; Romans 8:18–27
A companion for leading Advent formation with room for grief, accessible practices, careful discernment, and consequential welcome.
Watch and Wait: Advent 2026
Open resource →Let Grace Speak First
Luke 15:11–32; Romans 5:8; Mark 1:15
What might change if Presbyterians proclaimed forgiveness before confessing sin—and let worship’s sequence speak the same grace as its theology?
Grace First
Open resource →Generosity That Transforms: Theology and Practice
Psalm 24:1; 2 Corinthians 8–9; Acts 4:32–6:7
A companion on grace, material discipleship, accountability, legacy, and trustworthy money conversations.
Generosity that Transforms
Open resource →The Anxiety of Becoming
Acts 15:1-35
Explore how anxiety, tension, and uncertainty can become part of faithful communal discernment.
Open resource →What Kind of Community Are We Becoming?
Mark 6:30-44
Reflect on the relationships and practices that form a faithful community within and beyond the church.
Open resource →The Theology Beneath Grace First
Explore the Reformed conviction that God acts before we respond, with careful attention to Scripture, Calvin, the Heidelberg Catechism and Presbyterian worship.
Grace First
Open resource →Sources and Further Reading
Follow the biblical, confessional, liturgical and scholarly sources behind Grace First, with links for further study.
Grace First
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