Family Systems, Dystopias, Time, and a Parable

Those are the topics for this week’s Substack:

Monday we want to explore with two authors, Howard and Fenimore, how family system studies shed light on church systems — the dysfunctions of one are the dysfunctions of the other. Anxiety is at work in churches today, and we need help diagnosing what’s at work.

How is today’s movement of deconstruction a dystopia reacting and responding to evangelicalism’s past generation’s utopia? Join us Tuesday.

I want to begin looking at a new book on Wednesday, in particular at L. Ann Jervis’s new book, Paul and Time. Sounds abstract and it’s not. What it is is a challenge to how nearly all of us think about time in the New Testament.

Thursday — a parable. Join us.