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.
Mar 4, 2026
Theology
Society & Culture
From Apologetics to Cultural Witness
Barnabas Aspray
This article argues for moving beyond combative apologetics toward “cultural witness”—a posture of humble, truth-seeking testimony. Rather than trying to prove Christianity, believers are invited to illuminate life’s questions, hopes, and challenges through the light of the gospel.
All Resources: Spirituality
Feb 23, 2026
Calling, Context, and the Church: From Belonging to Witness
Rhonda M. McEwen, Gustavo H.R. Santos
This article reframes calling as more than an individual career choice, grounding vocation in belonging to the Church and participation in the missio Dei. Drawing on Regent Exchange, it invites congregations and theological education to discern and embody a shared, contextual witness.
Feb 2, 2026
Finding Wholeness Now: A Journey through Freedom Session
Jocelyn Dyck
After cancer and years of unresolved resentment, Carmen finds healing through Freedom Session—a gospel-centered journey of belief, confession, and forgiveness. Her story explores how faith, community, and truth can bring deep emotional and spiritual freedom here and now.
Jan 29, 2026
Perfection and Speech about God’s Character in the Old Testament
Matthew Lynch
Exploring Old Testament portrayals of God, this article challenges perfectionist theology that isolates divine traits like mercy or nonviolence, arguing instead for an embedded, relational understanding of God’s character grounded in Scripture.
Jan 9, 2026
Podcast: Discovering God's Gentleness by Risking Rest
Carolyn Watts
This episode explores Carolyn Watts’ journey from obstetrics in Afghanistan to life with chronic illness. Drawing on her memoir Risking Rest, she reflects on God’s intimate care, the gifts of singleness, trusting Him in hardship, and embracing rest amid life’s pressures.
Nov 4, 2025
Audio: Finishing Well
J.I. Packer
In “Finishing Well,” J. I. Packer reflects on aging and Christian hope with humor and depth. Marking his 80th birthday, he contrasts society’s view of old age with Scripture’s wisdom, urging believers to live faithfully as they journey toward their true home with God.
Oct 27, 2025
Re-Imagining Imagination Through a Photographic Lens
Levi Shiach
A photographer reflects on two images of the same scene—one spontaneous, one staged—to explore how imagination works not by control but by receptivity. True seeing, he argues, is about allowing the world and the Spirit to speak, cultivating attention that opens us to truth, beauty, and love.
Oct 22, 2025
Rediscovering Childlike Wonder: The Profound Allegory of "The Little Prince"
Fong Xue Ting
An analysis of The Little Prince, exploring its themes of childlike wonder, love, ego, and spiritual transformation through humility and imagination.
Oct 15, 2025
Video: Alexander Chow on Christianity and Chinese Identity | Walk & Talk
Alexander Chow
An interview on Christianity and Chinese identity. Chow reflects on his journey of faith, explores Christianity’s history in China, and examines its diverse, transnational expressions shaped by centuries of cultural and political change.
Oct 8, 2025
Hospitable Listening: The Experiences of Black Canadian and Taiwanese American Spiritual Directors
Rachel Hanna
This article explores how Black Canadian and Taiwanese American spiritual directors bring cultural awareness and deep listening to their practice. It calls for more inclusive, interculturally sensitive spiritual direction training shaped by diverse voices and experiences.
Oct 2, 2025
What Open Heart Surgery Taught Me about My Embodied Soul
Jeffrey Greenman
After open-heart surgery, the author discovers firsthand the profound unity of body, mind, and spirit. Recovery brought not just physical weakness but mental fog and spiritual numbness, revealing how trauma reverberates through our whole being, and how God heals us as integrated, fragile souls.
Sep 25, 2025
Video: Joy Marie Clarkson on Popular Culture and Faith | Walk & Talk
Joy Marie Clarkson
An interview on how art, literature, and metaphor shape spiritual formation. Clarkson explores how engagement with popular and classical works deepens moral imagination, reorients our view of death, and cultivates attention, empathy, and hope.
Sep 22, 2025
Motherhood, Vision, and Sacrament
Naomi Pattison-Williams
A luminous reflection on motherhood as a spiritual practice, where care, presence, and tender attention slowly shape a sacramental vision of everyday
Sep 16, 2025
Learning to Enjoy Joy: God’s Gift for Moments like This
Sebastian Dortch
A journalist caring for parents with dementia reflects on the deep challenges, mortality fears, and faith struggles this brings. Through Scripture, personal trials, and caregiving, he learns joy is not earned but gifted by Jesus, and often discovered in hardship and surrender.
Sep 16, 2025
Podcast: Indigeneity, Spirituality, and the Church
Cheryl Bear
Singer-songwriter Cheryl Bear explores the intersection of Christian faith and First Nations culture. Is Indigenous spirituality monotheistic? How does it relate to the gospel, and how does Jesus redeem cultural narratives? (This episode of the Regent College Podcast was recorded on Sept. 25, 2020.)
Sep 16, 2025
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Imagination for Being Human
James Smoker
Coleridge reimagined humanity not as machines, but as divine image-bearers with moral freedom, imagination, and mystery. He saw each person as unique, interconnected, and capable of friendship with God, a vision opposing dehumanizing views of his time and affirming sacred personhood.
Sep 16, 2025
Cave Spirituality: A Sermon on Psalm 142
Ross Hastings
Psalm 142 reveals “cave spirituality”—a space of lonely, honest lament. David cries out from grief, loss, and fear, yet finds refuge in God. Lament invites raw emotion, silence, and lucidity. Even in deep sorrow, God meets us, and community begins to form again.
Sep 16, 2025
The Paradoxes of God’s Physical Presence in the Old Testament
Matthew Lynch
The Old Testament wrestles with the paradox of seeing God—depicting Him as near yet veiled, visible yet ungraspable, always beyond human comprehension.
Sep 16, 2025
Reading with Strangers: A Hermeneutics of Hospitality
Brittany N. Melton
A hermeneutics of hospitality invites diverse voices to the table—reading the Bible with openness, trust, and a life-giving, communal lens.
Sep 16, 2025
Is Lectio Divina Just Making Stuff Up?
Bruce Hindmarsh
Lectio divina, often misunderstood as exotic or mystical, is reclaimed here as the historic and prayerful reading of Scripture. Rooted in Christian tradition, it integrates reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation, drawing believers into deeper communion with God through Scripture.
Sep 16, 2025
The New Jerusalem
Daniela Amestegui
A multicultural tapestry reimagines the New Jerusalem as a familiar, earthly city where God's Spirit weaves together diverse cultures in sacred unity.