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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30.6—Nov/Dec 2017

The Greatness Commission

Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen

19.1—January/February 2006

As If We Were to Be Immortal

on Death & Seven of the Last Words of Socrates by Graeme Hunter

33.1—January/February 2020

Forbidden Lies

Speaking Truth About the Sexes Is Not Optional by Anthony Esolen

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