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David Henreckson

Category: Writings

Venturing Our Selves

Venturing Our Selves

By admin, July 7, 2022
Posted in: Writings

Comment, Summer 2022 It seems to me that we need strong language to account for friendship’s fragile yet sacred value. Friendship is the sort of love that, on the very…

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Venturing Our Selves
Consoling the Heart

Consoling the Heart

By admin, March 31, 2021
Posted in: Featured, Writings

Fare Forward, Issue 11 It may sound like I’m trying to smuggle classical conceptions of rationality into contemporary notions of emotional awareness: Brené Brown cloaked under Aristotelian virtue ethics or…

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Consoling the Heart
The Problem with À La Carte Politics

The Problem with À La Carte Politics

By admin, February 16, 2021
Posted in: Writings

Christianity Today, March 2021 A few months before the 1996 election, a stack of voting guides showed up at my nondenominational church in suburban Chicago. The guides contained candidates’ headshots…

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The Problem with À La Carte Politics
Monuments Can Be Destroyed, but Not Forgotten

Monuments Can Be Destroyed, but Not Forgotten

By admin, September 9, 2020
Posted in: Writings

Christianity Today Online, September 2020 In the Hebrew Scriptures, stone monuments are earthen witnesses to a sacred covenant. When Jacob contractually maneuvered himself out from under his father-in-law Laban, he…

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Monuments Can Be Destroyed, but Not Forgotten
Sermon: A Friend Regained

Sermon: A Friend Regained

By admin, February 9, 2020
Posted in: Writings

Candlelight Evening Prayer, Valparaiso University, February 9, 2020 John 21:1-19 Good evening. Thank you for having me here at this beautiful Candlelight service. I wasn’t given a specific lectionary text…

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Sermon: A Friend Regained
Vespers Reflection

Vespers Reflection

By admin, July 25, 2019
Posted in: Writings

Jointly held by the Fellowship for Protestant Ethics and New Wine New Wineskins In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called…

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Vespers Reflection
A Regimen of Grace

A Regimen of Grace

By admin, November 29, 2018
Posted in: Featured, Writings

Comment, Winter 2018 It is the dispersal of shadows, the rending of sacred curtains, the unburdening of consciences, and the liberation of captives that typifies Calvin at his best. For…

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A Regimen of Grace
Resisting the Devil’s Instruments: Early Modern Resistance Theory for Late Modern Times

Resisting the Devil’s Instruments: Early Modern Resistance Theory for Late Modern Times

By admin, January 12, 2018
Posted in: Writings

Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 38:1 (2018) In the midst of religious conflict in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a number of prominent Protestant theologians and…

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Resisting the Devil’s Instruments: Early Modern Resistance Theory for Late Modern Times

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