articles by Paul Gregory Alms

31.5 — September/October 2018

Pastoral Realism

on the Congregation as a Wilderness


27.5 — Sept/Oct 2014

Songs Without Borders

on Why Springsteen's "The River" Couldn't Be Written Today


25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012

Unsafe Sacrament

on Death in Baptism as a Necessary Prerequisite to Resurrection


23.2 — March/April 2010

God Sideways

on How Jesus Comes Amid Distractions


21.2 — March 2008

Sounding Symbols

on Sermons That Survive by the Grace of God


20.2 — March 2007

Death Unplugged

on the Dying Body as a Window into the Soul


19.5 — June 2006

In His Stead

on Being Paid to Act Like Jesus


18.8 — October 2005

Wearing the Cross

on Servant Leadership & other Pastoral Fads



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The Mimetic Bachelor

Reality Shows, Even in a Popular TV Series by C. E. Smith

30.5—Sept/Oct 2017

Passions' Republic

The Christian Cure for What Ails Modern Politics by David Bradshaw

36.1—Jan/Feb 2023

Contraceptive Cons

A History of the Protestant Debate over Contraception by James A. Altena

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