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October 2017

October 05, 2017

The Bible and the Story

Today I was trying to do a quick dive into Luke 24 to grab a...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Technophobia

If we weren't so busy fussing about shifts in geopolitical climates and trying to stay...

February 11, 2017

Love Your Enemy: Thoughts on Donald Trump

What I see when I look at our president is someone who has never known...

February 02, 2017

Today, the Human Jesus Matters

I wrote A Man Attested by God because I had an academic answer to an academic question....

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Church’s Challenge in the Age of Trump

The church's challenge in the age of Trump, perhaps its biggest challenge, is to somehow...

January 23, 2017

Circle of Moral Responsibility

Who is my neighbor?

January 20, 2017

The Good News of Inauguration Day

Today is the day that many of us have been dreading. And, yes, many have...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Theological Interpretation and the Problem of Whiteness

"White makes right" makes for bad readings of the Bible.

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Listen!

Can protests in Charlotte birth a moment of grace?

September 19, 2016

Scripture: Our Father & Mother’s Unruly Child

Scripture doesn't replicate the theology of the church that birthed it.

September 17, 2016

Gentile Transformation: In Conversation with Wesley Hill

Included people are invited to a transformed morality even as they transform the ethics of...

September 15, 2016

Wilberforce and Newbigin

What William Wilberforce can teach us about Lesslie Newbigin's vision.

September 12, 2016

On Making a REALLY Big Deal About Jesus’s Humanity

The human Jesus as a cure for our anemic Christology.

September 08, 2016

Like a Child

Mark 10:15 means this.

September 07, 2016

Jesus the Key?

What difference does Jesus make for how we read the Old Testament?

September 06, 2016

Assimilation and Deception

Never underestimate your ability to assimilate contradictory information into your existing paradigm. Teachers know...

September 01, 2016

Peace: An Impossible Possibility

We only get peace when we believe there is enough.

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Changing God Changes Us

When the Lectionary gives you contradictory pictures of God, slavery, and hating parents all on...

August 26, 2016

Hospitality and the Fruit of Your Lips

What if the fruit of lips that confess Jesus as Lord isn't the words we...

August 18, 2016

Checking In on Sodom

The story of Sodom depicts the greatest threat to the church today.

August 13, 2016

There is Enough?

There is enough—but how do we believe that and live that as a people?

August 11, 2016

Inestimable Human Worth

Making a claim for Jesus that is a hundred times more scandalous than his divinity.

August 09, 2016

Four Ways to Miss God

We miss God precisely where we are most confident that we can find him.

August 01, 2016

Use Your Imagination…

What any of us think about God beforehand is the single greatest determining factor in...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

Orlando: Our Stories of Heroes and Villains

The Orlando night club shooting shows us that we need a better story: one where...

June 11, 2016

Jesus Stories

The Gospels are a latent power, waiting to explode our preconceptions of what Christianity must...

June 08, 2016

The Stories We Tell

There are facts. And then there are the stories we tell about the facts. Perhaps...

June 02, 2016

The Gift of Bad Candidates

The gift of an election cycle in which there are no political messiahs.

May 2016

May 10, 2016

Does God Have Gender?

No, God does not have sex. But gender?

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Being Right

For some people the only thing that matters is being right. People like me.