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December 2021

December 06, 2021

Why Does The Knowledge of Good And Evil Make Humanity Fall?

Very few interpreters of the Garden of Eden story in Genesis 3 pay any attention...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

Why Kevin DeYoung’s “Culture War Strategy” Fails

The Gospel Coalition published an article by Kevin DeYoung decrying the Supreme Court decision that...

June 05, 2020

The Serpent’s Fruit (In Poetic Form)

He understood clearly That all he had to do Was hold the Bible Courageously for...

June 04, 2020

The Fruit The Serpent Holds

I was proud of our former president George W. Bush this week. He said the...

June 03, 2020

Why True Christianity Is Anarchist

I wanted to take a few moments to talk about anarchism since Donald Trump has...

May 2020

May 11, 2020

The Light That Will Not Be Seized

[This is a poem about reinterpreting the Genesis 3 Garden of Eden story and how...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

An open letter with 12 honest questions for the Wesleyan Covenant Association

Dear Wesleyan Covenantal Association, First of all, I'm not afraid of you. I don't think...

January 2015

January 24, 2015

Radical Jesus 101: Is humanity good or evil?

Is humanity good or evil? Some conservative evangelicals would say that the answer to this...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Original sin and the identity of the other (questioning an apparent collision of values)

At a campus ministry conference I've been attending, a conservative evangelical speaker talked about the...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Wrestling with original sin (#sermon #podcast)

A week ago Sunday evening, we looked at the story of Adam and Eve as...

January 23, 2014

Were there mushrooms in Eden?

There are few things that make me smack my head more than the idea that...

January 11, 2014

The two verses that torpedo Biblical inerrancy

This weekend, we will be wrestling with what it means for the Bible to be...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

Does doctrine inspire love? (more fallout from @renovatuspastor’s sermon)

Well I got into a twitter argument with a young Calvinist named John following his...

August 13, 2013

Is morality the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?

This past weekend, I got to hear my favorite podcast preacher Jonathan Martin live for...

June 2013

June 11, 2013

Eternal life is innocence restored (Journey to Eternity #1)

There has been so much extra-Biblical speculation about the implications of the Garden of Eden...

February 2013

February 07, 2013

Is Jesus saving the world from us?

Is Jesus saving the world from us? It's a different way to talk about salvation,...

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...

May 2011

May 16, 2011

Pride: How We Hide Our Nakedness

Deadly Sin Sermon Series, 4 out of 9 -- 11/6/2010 Texts: Genesis 3:1-13; Luke 18:9-14...