Dr. Carmen Joy Imes

  I've been keeping a fun secret for several months, and I finally get to tell you! My good friend Esau McCaulley agreed to write the f...

I'm thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book! Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters releases October 28, 202...

You are part of the problem. So am I. But there's hope for us. In this daring book, Patrick Oden invites us to step outside of the ...

Alberta Sunrise (Photo: C Imes) It's Sunday morning. I sit by the gas fireplace snuggled up in a warm blanket, relishing the quiet. ...

When you enter the doors of a new church, anything could happen. Churches with dwindling numbers are often surprised to see a new face, as t...

If our picture of the Christian life is primarily shaped by the evangelical church service, what is missing? How might it be skewed? This ...

Who even cares? And what difference does it make, really? Pacific City, Oregon (Photo: C Imes) Sometimes when I come face to face...

The trail along the Salmon River offered cool shade that August afternoon. Countless trees, some of them wider than I am tall, others just...

Some seasons of life we'd rather not endure. Heavy black clouds dampen everything and choke out joy. We long to turn the corner, to pack...

The annual Wheaton Theology Conference has just come to a close. This year's topic was Christian Political Witness . I enjoyed stimula...

Five years ago, D. A. Carson critiqued H. Richard Niebuhr 's classic typology of ways to relate Christ and culture. (For a PhD seminar...

John Piper and I don't always see eye to eye . But I, like many others, have learned a lot from him, and I'm grateful for his minist...

"The Confession" by Pietro Longhi In my final post on Catholic teaching, I’d like to focus on a collection of related issues...

Dr. John Cavadini offers a reading at Mass with Pope Benedict XVI and the other members of the International Theological Commission on ...