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July 2020

July 21, 2020

When It’s Okay to Ignore Jesus

When the law appeared to promote the opposite of what God intended when it was...

April 2020

April 23, 2020

Is the Historical Jesus Biblical?

It turns out that the idea that there is a difference between the Jesus that...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

Baby Yoda and the Biblical Canon

When my wife started to watch the show, she had expectations for many of the...

October 2018

October 14, 2018

The Bible’s All-Too Human Origins

The Bible is neither mysterious nor straightforward in how we have come to read it....

October 07, 2018

When the Bible Rejects Its Own Stories

If one of the creation stories of the Israelites could end up being rejected and...

October 06, 2018

God Isn’t Calling You to Him

... it is not merely the case that God calls to us, as if God...

October 05, 2018

Are You Reading the Bible Wrong?

The task of modern Christianity, as I see it, is moving forward with a healthier...

October 03, 2018

Inerrancy and the Gnostic Heresy

Modern fundamentalist Christians who espouse the idea of inerrancy may not ever imagine that they...

October 01, 2018

Dreaming About the Bible at Yale Divinity School

Today marks the beginning of week six of my first semester at one of the...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

Can Adventism Accept Same-Sex Marriage?

The current position of the Adventist church is vastly out of step with its earlier...

April 2018

April 01, 2018

If A Woman Can’t Be Ordained, She Can’t Be Married

...the reality is that whoever wrote this letter, whether Paul or his disciple, they (in...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Is the Holy Spirit a Skeptic?

Paul, in a sense, explicitly denies that the Spirit can or would endorse anything non-rational...

March 29, 2018

Paul’s Humble Philosophy: What Christianity Forgot

Paul’s speech argues, from a Christian perspective to other Christians, that they as Christians currently...

December 2017

December 17, 2017

Was Jesus Really Born of a Virgin?

Perhaps the stories in Matthew and Luke are indeed edifying fiction and parables as some scholars have long speculated (or...

December 05, 2017

The Story of Jesus’ Birth is Not Essential

The writers of the New Testament demonstrate that it's possible to be in communion as...

December 01, 2017

Should Gay Christians Remain Celibate?

What is clear to me is that we as a Church who pride ourselves on...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Did Jesus Know Who Wrote the Book(s) of Isaiah?

It is odd that Jesus at no point in the four gospels quotes any material past...

November 03, 2017

Your Bible Is Missing A Few Verses

4,000,000+ people on YouTube... and countless others across the world are reciting a verse in...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

The Forgotten Truth About Halloween & the Bible

Did you know: Though Halloween is often berated by Ultra-Conservative Christians as a negative or...

October 28, 2017

Christians Need to Defend Gay Marriage

"When Roy Moore voices his opposition to the Supreme Court's decision to recognize Gay Marriage,...

October 25, 2017

Confession: I Don’t Believe Jesus Loves Me

"Belief is where we all start, but it's important to keep in mind that we...

October 21, 2017

The King James Bible Removed Verses

The King James translators over 400 years ago were no different than those of...

October 19, 2017

Seventh-day Adventists Are Weird… And I’m One of Them

Starting a blog is always difficult and so I thought that it would be best...

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