Welcome to The Vine, a publication of Regent College.
We’re delighted to share ideas and perspectives from a wide range of people within and beyond Regent’s circles. In articles and interviews, podcasts and videos, you’ll hear authentic voices speaking from experience and expertise about ideas that matter to our community and yours.
Join us for conversations that inform, challenge, and inspire.
Welcome to The Vine, a publication of Regent College.
We’re delighted to share ideas and perspectives from a wide range of people within and beyond Regent’s circles. In articles and interviews, podcasts and videos, you’ll hear authentic voices speaking from experience and expertise about ideas that matter to our community and yours.
Join us for conversations that inform, challenge, and inspire.
Podcast: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church
In this episode, Dr. Soong-Chan Rah reflects on the North American church’s call to move beyond Western cultural captivity and more fully embody the diversity of the global body of Christ. The conversation explores how worship, theology, and church life can better reflect the cultural richness of our communities, emphasizing the need for genuine diversity, faithful contextual expression, and deeper cultural awareness in a changing church landscape.
All Resources: Church/Parachurch
Podcast: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church
The Harvest of the Spirit
The Son Went Up . . . and the Spirit Came Down: Lessons from the Ascent of the Son and the Descent of the Holy Spirit
Why Bother With Church?
Generation Alpha and the Opportunity Before Us
Calling, Context, and the Church: From Belonging to Witness
The Importance of Ritual Learning for the Development of Child Faith
This article argues that age-segregated church practices weaken children’s faith formation. Drawing on theology and developmental research, it calls for including children in baptism and communion as formative rituals that apprentice faith through participation, not instruction alone.
Podcast: Christianity and Immigration Policy
Community: Diaspora Theology in Real Time: Technology and Transnational Community
Imagine Otherwise, the online magazine of Princeton’s Center for Asian American Christianity, hosts a podcast with Prof. Ann Gillian Chu on lived theology, Hong Kong’s political unrest, BN(O) migration to the UK, and its impact on faith, family, and community life.
A Slightly Useful Way: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and a Homiletic of Epistemic Humility
Drawing on Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, this essay explores how preaching shaped by epistemic humility—embracing mystery, complexity, and grace—can speak more faithfully and credibly to a skeptical age.