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April 2024

April 19, 2024

Every Instance Jesus Condemns Cannabis

Tomorrow is 4/20, so to all my fellow humans who enjoy participating in some of...

February 2023

February 22, 2023

If I Only Had 5 Books To Read For The Rest Of My Life…

If I only had 5 books to read for the rest of my life, they...

March 2022

March 21, 2022

Everyone Is Saved And Everyone Goes To Hell

A charge often leveled against universalists is that there is no room for justice. The...

February 2022

February 15, 2022

10 Things Christians Are More Hyped About Than Jesus

I grew up in your typical large, conservative Evangelical Church. I spent a decade playing...

January 2022

January 25, 2022

Baptist Group Considering Adding 5th Gospel To Their Bibles

Mt. Juliet, TN - A small group of Southern Baptist ministers are currently deliberating over...

January 11, 2022

After 2,000 Years, Jesus Returns (But Just To Clarify A Few Things)

Jerusalem, ISRAEL - After 2,000 years, Jesus Christ of Nazareth returned to earth in order...

August 2021

August 13, 2021

No Hell? Then Why Care About Jesus?

I affirm universal reconciliation. Meaning, even if there is a hell, it doesn't last forever....

August 11, 2021

“The Holy Spirit Told Me . . . “

Is there a better way to shut down a conversation than by saying, "The Holy...

July 2021

July 07, 2021

Those Times Jesus “Changed” Scripture

"Jesus quotes the Old Testament, therefore he affirms everything in it." How many of you...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

God Saves Us (But Not From God’s Self)

In my last entry, I discussed a ridiculous Paul Washer quote about how God saves...

June 15, 2021

Gehenna Misunderstood

When Jesus talked about hell, he used the Hebrew or Aramaic equivalent of the Greek word...

April 2021

April 12, 2021

The Parable of the Prodigal Son (A Modern Remix)

The Parable of the Prodigal and His Brother comes from Luke 15:11-32 and is a...

March 2021

March 16, 2021

What Would Jesus Quote?

Recently, I was invited to contribute a chapter for a book project that will address...

February 2021

February 20, 2021

Reframing the Question “What Would Jesus Do?”

"What Would Jesus Do?" WWJD. That's a question Christians ask themselves many times over the...

January 2021

January 21, 2021

Never Settle For Normal

Now that Joseph R. Biden is President of the United States of America, I keep...

January 13, 2021

Jesus Wasn’t Always Nice

There seems to be a recent movement among some Christians who think that Jesus played...

January 08, 2021

7 Reasons the Bible is NOT the Inerrant Word of God

"The Bible is the inerrant Word of God," or so says many Christians. But it's...

January 07, 2021

Dear Trump-Supporting Christians

Dear Trump-Supporting Christians, Are you happy now? Is this what you wanted? To watch fellow...

January 05, 2021

“Matt, What If You’re Wrong?”: Addressing the Infernalist’s Version of Pascal’s Wager

In case you didn't know, I'm a Universalist. This means that in the end, I...

January 04, 2021

Let Freedom Ring!

I've been thinking about freedom lately. What does it mean to be free? What, exactly,...

December 2020

December 10, 2020

101 Things Jesus Didn’t Do That Most Christians Do

Last year, a picture of some supremely educated anti-vaxxer went viral because of how groundbreakingly...

December 08, 2020

New HERETIC HAPPY HOUR Featuring Kristin Kobes Du Mez

A new episode of the Heretic Happy Hour podcast is now available, and features an...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

Love Thy Neighbor…Wear Thy Mask (I’m Talking to You, Bethel Redding!!!)

I live an hour and a half south of Redding, California, an economically depressed city...

November 16, 2020

Inerrancy is Not Biblical

I don't generally like the term "biblical." It's sort of meaningless, a vapid feigning of...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

What the Parable of The Prodigal Son Teaches Us About God

There are many stories throughout the Scriptures that teach us what happens when families fight....

April 2019

April 18, 2019

The Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah: A Non-Penal Consideration

Tomorrow is Good Friday, which means that you’ll likely hear all about how the death...

April 10, 2019

Transcending Our Labels

Labels, in and of themselves, are neither good nor bad. They are pointers, and, when...

July 2018

July 04, 2018

Freedom of Religion

*This is a guest post by my good friend and pastor Daniel Wysong. “Our relationship...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

If Anyone Is Going to Hell, It’s the Christians

Although I no longer engage in theological discussions on Facebook all that often, I still...

March 2018

March 23, 2018

The Power of Palm Sunday

We all love power. We long for it, desire it, even covet it. Power gives...