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The Incarnate Confrontation

Caleb Cangelosi
Jan 15, 2019
We've all given and received gifts this past year, and I imagine the majority of those gifts were probably intended to be used in some way, not just owned or placed on a shelf unopened. But it's likely you've had that awkward experience of giving a gift designed to be used, and somehow finding out...

Log College Press

Caleb Cangelosi
Sep 11, 2018
Technology is at the same time destructive and creative, disruptive and connective. It erases jobs from existence (has anyone seen an ice cutter or an elevator operator recently?), and creates whole new industries and vocations (pause to recollect that no one but Apple employees had likely even...

Glory of the Newborn King

Caleb Cangelosi
Dec 22, 2017
Of all the hymns written about the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the words of Charles Wesley's "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" are among the most theologically dense and substantive--because all five stanzas are filled with Scriptural truths about Jesus. Before considering the Christology of this...

Gospel-Motivated Work

Caleb Cangelosi
Oct 30, 2017
Americans in the 21 st century have a complicated relationship to work. On the one hand, many have seen their jobs disappear due, among other reasons, to automation, outsourcing, or the hiring of less expensive, more efficient, or more willing immigrants. We are increasingly bombarded by doomsday...

The Great-Grandfather of the Reformation

Caleb Cangelosi
Oct 19, 2017
As we celebrate the 500 th anniversary of the Reformation, let us not forget that there were reforming efforts in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ long before Martin Luther played the carpenter and nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517. These forerunners of the...

Dying Well (Part 1)

Caleb Cangelosi
Sep 26, 2017
It would be easy to write Deuteronomy 34 off as a throwaway chapter that had to be included to bring the story of Moses to a conclusion. Moses dies. That's it. Perhaps we approach the chapter with questions that we can’t really answered with certainty. For instance, "Did Moses write...

A Spiritual Reality Check

Caleb Cangelosi
Jan 9, 2017
What is reality? That question is one that is already wide opened in our culture. From television shows about artificial intelligence gaining consciousness to virtual reality devices , 2017 is already being declared the year that virtual and augmented reality will become our reality . In any event...

Reformation 101: Priests in Jesus

Caleb Cangelosi
Nov 11, 2016
Having recently passed the 499th anniversary of Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, there is great anticipation of the 500th celebration of this momentous event and the Reformation that it catalyzed. We typically summarize the Reformation by the five solas -...

Two Words for Seminarians

Caleb Cangelosi
Aug 29, 2016
Seventeen years ago this fall I began my studies at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi . It feels like just yesterday, though the bare skin on my head and the gray in my beard would tell otherwise. Classes begin again in Jackson this week, and as I've had conversations with...

Longing for a Multi-Ethnic Church

Caleb Cangelosi
Jul 12, 2016
If Charlotte's Web were real, Charlotte might have written the following about the events of last week: "SOME WEEK!" "HORRIFIC" "DEVIANT" "HUMBLING". Two young black men shot dead by police officers, one in my home town of Baton Rouge. Five police officers shot dead by one young black man in Dallas...

The Adversary and the Intercessor

Caleb Cangelosi
Jun 7, 2016
I love the hymn "Jesus, What a Friend for Sinners" - but one line makes me uncomfortable every time I sing it: "Jesus! What a strength in weakness! Let me hide myself in him; tempted, tried, and sometimes failing , he, my strength, my vict'ry wins." Sometimes failing? How about many times...often...

A Virtual Reality Check

Caleb Cangelosi
Apr 25, 2016
Just a few weeks ago, the Oculus Rift started shipping out its Kickstarter units . These virtual reality (VR) headsets have been anticipated for years, especially since Facebook bought the parent company in 2014 . At the risk of using a tired word, this new technology will likely become disruptive...