The Regent Vine
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.
The Regent Vine
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.
The Regent Vine
Welcome to The Vine, a publication of Regent College. Join us for conversations that inform, challenge, and inspire.
Heresy: A Matter of the Heart
New Testament scholar Dennis R. Edwards argues that while much scholarly attention is given to conflicts around doctrinal heresy in the early church, the authors of 1 John, 2 Peter, and Jude emphasize a failure to know and live like Jesus as the greatest threat to their communities.
All Resources: Church/Parachurch
Video | The Necessity of a Lament from the People
Video | Ministry in the Shadow of Trauma: The Dynamics of Trauma Exposure & Emotional Challenges in Ministry
Podcast | Trauma & Spiritual Formation
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.