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September 2011

September 28, 2011

Agonizing Over the Will of God

When I visited my grandfather's church in Corpus Christi, Texas a few years back, there...

September 17, 2011

The church of outrage vs. the church of vulnerability

In the buildup to the first US invasion of Iraq, there was a haunting video...

September 12, 2011

Bad things happen: I will hope in God

We had a memorial service tonight for September 11th at Burke United Methodist Church. It...

September 07, 2011

Biblical Populism vs. Biblical Conservativism

There's been some buzz in the Christian blogosphere recently about the questions raised by Christian...

August 2011

August 26, 2011

Man, Woman, and Original Sin: A Response to Al Mohler

My best friend was once dating a herpetologist (reptile biologist). When he heard I was...

August 25, 2011

Five Disappointments with Francis Chan’s Erasing Hell

I want so badly to transcend the tribalism of the Rob Bell vs. Team Hell...

August 23, 2011

Learning to Love God's Judgment

[This is a repost of an article I wrote for Ministry Matters on the two...

August 22, 2011

Illegal Aliens in the Kingdom of God

I have often struggled with the notion of imputed righteousness in reformed theology. It grates...

August 16, 2011

Some gems from Thomas Merton

I was flipping through my journal for the past year and I found some quotes...

August 09, 2011

The Sacrament and the Commodity

Today I took a walk through the woods as I do most Mondays. I went...

August 06, 2011

Perpetual Conversion (Reframing the Question of Salvation)

I had an epiphany while I was reading Kurt Willem's Red Letter Christians article on...

August 03, 2011

Where I agree with Mark Driscoll: Judgment As Solidarity

I was originally thinking about going after Mark Driscoll's complementarianism by comparing him with Juan...

July 2011

July 25, 2011

Dave Ramsey: great debt advice, not so great theology

Today I watched Dave Ramsey's Great Recovery video. I think I feel something akin to...

July 17, 2011

From self-justification to mercy

Like many other evangelicals in my generation, I've got a kind of rage inside of...

July 10, 2011

A Beer with a Calvinist: Reflecting on the Meaning of Hesed

Three years ago I responded to a post on my church history TA David Fink's...

June 2011

June 13, 2011

Weakness in Worship

I don't know if you've ever had the experience where you read a book that...

June 09, 2011

Marc Carpenter and Today’s Pelagianism

Okay I recognize that most people who would read my blog wouldn't have any reason...

June 07, 2011

Homosexuality & Biblical Authority

I got an email today from the Virginia Methodist state listserv that let me know...

May 2011

May 20, 2011

God's holiness and hospitality

There's been a lot of conversation in the Christian blogosphere recently about how God's holiness...

May 20, 2011

God’s holiness and hospitality

There's been a lot of conversation in the Christian blogosphere recently about how God's holiness...

May 16, 2011

Justification by Faith: 3 Perspectives

I want to hypothesize that the basis for the opposing perspectives in the "Rob Bell...

May 16, 2011

Orthodoxy for the Sake of Orthopraxis

So for those of my facebook friends who don't know, this week there’s a virtual...