The Life of Karl Barth: The Red Pastor of Safenwil 1909-1921 (Part 2) (April 21, 2018)

In part one of The Life of Karl Barth series, I discussed Karl Barth's early life from his birth in 1886 until he left the University of Marburg and his pastoral work in Geneva in 1911. In part two, I will discuss the next ten years in Barth's life when […]

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The Romans commentary by the Red Pastor of Safenwil: Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans (October 3, 2017)

Karl Barth was in his early thirties and a country pastor in Safenwil, Switzerland when he wrote the first edition of his landmark commentary The Epistle to the Romans (Der Romerbrief, 1919). Barth did not have any advanced theological degrees when he wrote Romans, and he wrote it while ministering to blue collar […]

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Karl Barth on the Pentecost: Jesus is Standing in the Midst (March 22, 2017)

In the early 1920's, Karl Barth preached a sermon on Pentecost to his tiny church in Safenwil, Switzerland. In this sermon, "Come, Creator Spirit!", Barth says that Christians today have much more in common with the strangers and immigrants who came together at Pentecost, than to the Apostles; these immigrants […]

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