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April 2020

April 14, 2020

Love Letter to A Diva God (A Poem About How Love Is Delightfully Infuriating)

You have been tuning me into your song, For every time my signal fails to...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

God’s wrath is the salvation of the oppressed

"Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Detoxify Christian lingo #1: Salvation

I've decided to write a series of blog posts focusing on some of the Christian...

June 06, 2016

What if Christian salvation means becoming divine?

Becoming divine. It sounds like new age drivel one might hear from a spiritual guru...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and white evangelical nihilism

It's going to be hard to write this without it coming across as trolling, but...

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...

November 01, 2015

Seven points of contention in today’s reformation

So it's that time of year known as Reformation Sunday when we remember the anniversary...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

Love and the day of judgment (1 John 4:17)

1 John 4 is one of the most comforting and life-giving chapters of the whole...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

Do you deserve to be crucified for your sin?

This past week, Brian Zahnd and Michael Brown held a debate on the penal substitution...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

Could you listen to an angry black Jesus?

I know. He doesn't look all that angry. There just aren't any good angry black...

February 2014

February 23, 2014

Wrestling with heaven and hell (last weekend’s #sermon #podcast)

I keep on getting busy and forgetting to post my sermon podcasts. Last weekend, for...

February 11, 2014

What makes God mad? My hard heart.

This weekend, I had the perfect setup for a stereotypical social justice Christian sermon. I...

February 05, 2014

Did we crucify Jesus or did God? (Using @ScotMcKnight to bludgeon bad atonement theory)

Scot McKnight had a very interesting post last week concerning a recently popular"scapegoat" atonement theory...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

Isaiah 7 & 53: should prophecies be prooftexts?

My great-grandfather Luther Weigle [pictured here] was the dean of Yale Divinity School and chair...

October 07, 2013

The God of no compromise and the government shutdown

For many of us who grew up evangelical, the word "compromise" has always been a...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

An email to Al Mohler regarding penal substitution

Al Mohler recently put up a post on penal substitution in response to the PCUSA...

May 2013

May 03, 2013

Is Guantanamo Bay as far as the east is from the west?

Do you think these human beings matter to God? They certainly don't matter much to...

April 2013

April 20, 2013

Defining sin for adolescents

I'm on our church's confirmation retreat. For the last three years, we've framed our retreat...

April 02, 2013

Fleeing the wrath to come vs. hearing the voice of love

A few months ago, a friend wrote a blog asking whether the teachings of Henri...

January 2013

January 20, 2013

Who is Romans 9:22-23 talking about? (A response to Greg Boyd)

I'm one of the "pod-rishioners" of the popular Michigan pastor Greg Boyd. One thing I...

January 08, 2013

Frantz Fanon and Isaiah 61

Isaiah 61 was the Daily Office Old Testament reading for today. Some of you will...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Life and wrath as ontologies (John 3:36)

I just stumbled across something in my sermon preparation that made me do a double-take...

December 19, 2012

Why should the wicked fear God's mercy?

Psalm 52:3 blew my mind yesterday as I was reading it in the Chapel of...

December 16, 2012

The good work of God's wrath (a response to Greg Boyd)

It's always interesting when someone else says something that you've said exactly the way you...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

Mercy Not Sacrifice: A Recovering Evangelical’s Manifesto

I desperately need your help and feedback in pulling this book together. I have shared...

October 2012

October 19, 2012

Dinesh D’Souza and the revelation of God’s wrath

"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth" (1 Cor 13:6). That...

October 17, 2012

God's wrath as a cosmic spiritual immune system

My reformed brother Derek Rishmawy and I have been having a stimulating discussion about the...

October 17, 2012

God’s wrath as a cosmic spiritual immune system

My reformed brother Derek Rishmawy and I have been having a stimulating discussion about the...

October 14, 2012

Communion or correctness? The underlying question.

Is God's goal for humanity communion or correctness? The way you answer that question will...

October 01, 2012

Sight as a Metaphor for Salvation (Mark 8:22-26)

The last sermon in our Jesus Is My Candidate series had the theme "He gives...