Zach Spidel is a pastor and church planter who recently earned his Ph.D. with a focus on patristic hermeneutics. He lives with his wife and 2 kids in the house from which, in 2012, he and a ragtag band of Jesus’ disciples launched the church that would become the East Dayton Fellowship (Ohio) – where he continues to be privileged to serve.
Articles by Zach Spidel
William Blake – the 18th century artist – had an unusual way of seeing and painting the world. Rather than following the expectation for naturalistic realism prevalent in his day, Blake’s paintings tried to bring unseen spiritual realities into visual focus through the inclusion of striking…
When I was in the first year of my Ph.D. program in theology at the University of Dayton, I was blessed with an opportunity to write about the Brethren in Christ for a seminar focused on historiographical issues in relation to theology…
I live in a neighborhood that, to the world outside it, is virtually invisible. Places like my neighborhood in East Dayton are almost never depicted in TV shows or in movies — if they are, they are represented as alien places into which the protagonists enter with some peril…
For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared to love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone looking on. Whereas active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science…
