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



more from the online archives

28.2—March/April 2015

Facing God

on Divine Worship & the Natural Limits of Community by David Mills

28.1—January/February 2015

Altered Matrimony

on State Impositions & Church Acquiescence by Stephen Baskerville

19.4—May 2006

Liberalism as Religion

The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides by Howard P. Kainz

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