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August 2018

August 02, 2018

How Singing the Psalms Provides a Fixed Point for Theological Expression and Growth

It has been widely reported that the state of modern Christendom in Western society is...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Bug or Design Feature?

In the introduction to her recent book Political Tribes, Amy Chua wrote, Humans are tribal....

June 12, 2018

Quit Hoping People Will Come To Your Church

Many Christians today act as if Jesus gave a great suggestion instead of a great...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Learning, the Good Life, and Skin in the Game

I’ve had the privilege of participating in a book study group at Schole House, a...

May 16, 2018

Christians Must Take a Hard Stand Against Sexual Objectification

A recent controversy at the Southern Baptist Convention reminds us that living out Christian principles...

May 15, 2018

A Knock on the Door in the Night

Nighttime was especially dangerous on the West Bank – we always tried to get back...

March 2018

March 23, 2018

Sounds of Silence in Japan

Different sounds accompany great disasters. An earthquake begins with the rumble of heaving earth and...

March 12, 2018

Confessions of an Easter Greeter

As I welcomed Easter parishioners, I noted the normalcy of the morning. A typical Seattle...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

God-Speak and the Church’s Lost Primitive

“When we define, we seem in danger of circumscribing nature within the bounds of our...

February 22, 2018

Evangelist Billy Graham’s Consistent Legacy

He was the same person in private as he was in public.

February 14, 2018

The Persistence of Peggy

Watching the Winter Olympics from South Korea brought to mind someone I met at a...

February 09, 2018

Sex, Love, and God on St. Valentine’s Day

If God has given His metaphoric thumbs up to sexual relations for purposes other than...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Fear Not Ecclesiastes

“I don’t read it because it scares me. All that stuff about life being meaningless,”...

January 16, 2018

How Could a God of Love Allow Suffering?

How can a God of love permit such suffering in the world?

January 12, 2018

Bonus Time

If we were to lean more fully into the concept of bonus time, how would...

January 02, 2018

Perseverence Is All That Matters

There are 3 kinds of people in the world; those who haven’t persevered, those who...

December 2017

December 12, 2017

Does God the Father Hate His Beloved Son?

Some have gone so far as to claim that, as a penal substitute, Christ became...

December 04, 2017

Liturgy for the Low Church

I came to love liturgy late, but I am not going to leave it.

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Evangelical Moral Witness, Power, and the State

Since so much evangelical political theology is a string of tropes and one-liners, this term,...

November 02, 2017

“Who Told You That You Were ________ ?”

Here's a question worth asking a divided and confused generation.

October 2017

October 30, 2017

The Reformation: 5 Ways it Changed Our World

For better and for worse, Christian and non-Christian, we live in a world dramatically shaped...

October 06, 2017

Is Stephen Paddock in Hell?

What truths can we cling to in order to somehow cope with this massive act...

October 03, 2017

Do Your Thoughts and Prayers Matter?

Do thoughts and prayers matter when hundreds are waking up with the news that their...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Why Heaven is NOT the Ultimate Destination

I know, I know—this is a radical change of view for many people. Stay with...

September 25, 2017

The Nashville Statement and Models of Pastoral Care

Is the Nashville Statement pastoral (enough) in approach?

August 2017

August 31, 2017

The Best Question to Ask a Skeptic

So what’s the best question to ask a skeptic?

August 25, 2017

God Wasn’t in the Storm: How Imprecise Language Yields a Harmful Theology of Pain

We too often condense complex biblical concepts into sentence-long platitudes that do more to misrepresents...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

False Messiahs: Who Are They, Really?

According to the Bible, certain “birth pains” will presage the end of this world and...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Early Jesus-followers as a Hodgepodge of Competing Christianities: Rethinking a Popular Thesis

If you could travel back in time to the year 100 to visit several of...

May 24, 2017

As It Is in Heaven

At some point in each of our lives, we have wondered what our purpose is...

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