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June 2020

June 02, 2020

All Poetry Is God-Breathed

All poetry is God-breathed And useful for divine teaching Not because the words are Right...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

The Book (A Poem About Hegemony)

This may not be the right question but Are you a character in a book...

July 2018

July 03, 2018

Good Biblical Words: A Series Introduction

God has convicted me of the need to write a different set of blog posts...

April 2017

April 21, 2017

The debate that’s older than Paul’s letter to the Galatians (#NoSuchLaw)

The United Methodist Church faces a major flashpoint next week when our Judicial Council meets...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

The problem with the golden calf story

I noticed a problem in the Bible that I'd never noticed before in church last week....

July 2016

July 01, 2016

Is there a Christianity that isn’t toxic?

Have American Christians become what Jesus came to stop us from being? It’s not an...

November 2015

November 07, 2015

Rene Girard, God’s wrath, and Jesus’ cross

In 2001, my spiritual mentor Bob Holum gave me a book that completely changed everything...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Did God or Satan tell David to take a census? Progressive revelation & Derek Flood’s Disarming Scripture

If God tells you to sin, is it still a sin? What if God tells...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

Why I like Pope Francis’ “God of surprises”

It's little secret that progressive evangelicals like me have a huge crush on Pope Francis...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

Three arguments for Biblical inerrancy that need to be retired

One of the most important books I read in seminary was evangelical Old Testament scholar...

January 2014

January 13, 2014

Three different conceptions of Biblical authority

Thanks very much for your responses to my last post on Biblical inerrancy. Though some...

December 2013

December 27, 2013

Does it matter that Luke knows nothing of Herod’s slaughter of the innocents?

This Christmas, I stumbled over a verse, Luke 2:39, that I had never noticed before:...

August 2013

August 18, 2013

Obedience is inspiration (2 Timothy 3:16 in the light of John 3:8)

It's probably not best practice for a preacher to say this publicly, but my sermon...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Privilege and Biblical interpretation

This is a post where I'm raising a question that I flat-out don't know the...

February 2013

February 09, 2013

Do you read the Bible for ideology or discipleship?

When I was in seminary, one of the things that impressed me about Augustine was...

August 2011

August 23, 2011

Learning to Love God's Judgment

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

May 2011

May 16, 2011

Justification by Faith: 3 Perspectives

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