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October 31, 2025

Why Beth Felker Jones is a Protestant, Part 2

Who are the real Catholics? In this second part of my review of Beth...

May 2016

May 07, 2016

The most basic argument against Protestantism

Dave Armstrong at Patheos Catholic has pointed out that early Protestants "detested divisions" and were...

May 07, 2016

Guarding our neighbor’s pride–yet another response to Morgan Guyton

If I'm not careful this blog will become nothing but a parasite on Morgan's. He...

May 06, 2016

Romans 1, original sin, and identity

One of the key passages in theological debates over homosexuality is Romans 1, in which...

April 2016

April 17, 2016

Review of Morgan Guyton, Part 2

Chapter 7 of How Jesus Saves the World from Us, "Communion, not Correctness," deals with the...

April 12, 2016

Review of Morgan Guyton, How Jesus Saves the World from Us (part 1)

Christianity does not have a good reputation among non-Christians in contemporary America and Western Europe....

March 2016

March 21, 2016

Is the falsifiability of Christian claims a conclusive argument for Christianity?

This article argues that it is, but I think the argument is pretty much bunk....

March 20, 2016

Further thoughts on Isaiah

I have now finished reading through Isaiah in Hebrew (I did this quite a while...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

James Payton, Part 2

Chapter 7 of Payton's Getting the Reformation Wrong focuses on the Anabaptists and other radical groups....

January 23, 2016

Review of James Payton, Getting the Reformation Wrong, part 1

James Payton's 2010 book Getting the Reformation Wrong has a provocative title (one I would love...

January 23, 2016

Letter of Melanchthon to Brenz, May 1531

I translated this letter some years ago for Dave Armstrong, who had cited parts of...

January 20, 2016

Isaiah, chaos, and idolatry (with a concluding peroration about Muslims)

I've been reading through the Bible in Hebrew for many years now, and I'm just...

January 02, 2016

Progressive revelation in the OT: A response to Jonathan Huddleston

Jonathan Huddleston, an old and dear friend of mine who is an OT scholar, has...

January 01, 2016

Why the Incarnation requires us to believe that Muslims worship the true God

So the Internet has been buzzing these past few weeks--my corner of it at least--with...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

In memoriam magistri Latomi dilecti

I first met David Steinmetz in April 1995, more than twenty years ago. I was...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

The Remarkable Career of a Young Academic (to the tune of “The Vicar of Bray”)

When I got out of graduate school,I applied to a Christian college,Where I found it...

September 2015

September 07, 2015

Kim Davis and the ethics of workplace resistance

I hadn't planned to write a formal blog post about Kim Davis. I've gotten involved...

September 03, 2015

Wolf Hall and the myth of the Moral Pragmatist

The BBC/PBS miniseries Wolf Hall is six hours of some of the most absorbing television...

June 2015

June 14, 2015

Canon and authority–a common Catholic argument analyzed

One of the strongest Catholic arguments against Protestantism is the challenge, "how do you explain...

May 2015

May 16, 2015

Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 7–final thoughts

When I began this series, I made it clear that I approached Boyd's theology with...

April 2015

April 19, 2015

Letter to the board of trustees of Northwest Nazarene University with regard to the firing of Tom Oord

I did not originally intend this as an open letter, but my wife urged me...

April 14, 2015

Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 6–how it all fits together

Boyd's "warfare theology" is a comprehensive account of how God relates to the world in...

March 2015

March 15, 2015

Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 5–open theism

As I said in my first post in this series, my knowledge of open theism...

February 2015

February 02, 2015

The Two Messengers

Perhaps to the clear-eyed angelThere was nothing in the word he brought but glory:Infinite splendor...

January 2015

January 15, 2015

Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 4–the “blueprint model”

Boyd's antagonist throughout his two volumes of "warfare theology" is something he calls the "blueprint...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 3–Creation

Boyd's "warfare theology" rests on a doctrine of creation as an act whereby God gives...

December 04, 2014

Immanentizing the eschaton

Conservatives are fond of saying that one shouldn't "immanentize the eschaton." What else, I ask,...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 2–God at war in Scripture

The first of Boyd's two books on "warfare theology," God at War, focuses primarily on the...

November 13, 2014

Thoughts on Isaiah, ISIS, and the Peaceable Kingdom

A few things that jump out at me from reading Isaiah in Hebrew (I'm on...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Greg Boyd’s warfare theology, part 1

One of the major theological controversies in the evangelical world in the past couple of...