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The Christian Revolution Looking at the World through a Biblical and Theological Lens Sat, 27 Jul 2019 18:46:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 God and Stephen King https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2019/07/god-and-stephen-king/ Sat, 27 Jul 2019 18:46:25 +0000 https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1878 Its been a while since I posted some of my writing on here. In the past I have blamed this kind of absence on laziness, but this time I can say that it has been for good reasons. I recently moved to Waco, TX to begin a PhD program in New Testament at Baylor University. […]

]]> A Post After Some Time Away….And a Big Life Announcement https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2019/04/a-post-after-some-time-away-and-a-big-life-announcement/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 03:05:27 +0000 https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1831 If you have spent any time reading this blog, you’ll have probably noticed that I have not posted anything since mid-January. This is do in part to laziness, in part to having done a good deal of traveling over the last couple of months, and in part to some big life changes that have been […]

]]> The Christian Response to Nation-States https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2019/01/the-christian-response-to-nation-states/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:15:25 +0000 https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1765 I was recently invited to write up some of my reflections on how Christians should respond to the subject of nation-states by the good folks over at Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy. They are hosting a series of guest columns on the subject from various voices in the American Christian writing and blogging […]

]]> American Paganism https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2018/12/american-paganism/ Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:06:05 +0000 https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1740 The end of the year has a tendency to heap a ton of responsibilities and tasks upon you. It has been a little over a month since my last post, and that is due almost entirely to work and some ministry-related projects that I have been working on. Of course, a bit of weekend […]

]]> “By the Rivers of Babylon We Wept…” https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2018/11/by-the-rivers-of-babylon-we-wept/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:04:14 +0000 https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1713 I’ve had trouble writing this. The murders committed at the Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha (Hebrew: “Light of Joy”) synagogue on Oct. 27th, just short of a week ago, have left me feeling numb. Normally I have quite a few thoughts on the trending cultural and political rumblings. This time though, I’m left with little […]

]]> Psalms, Politics, and Fleeting Mortality https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2018/10/psalms-politics-and-fleeting-mortality/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:00:10 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1692 I have refrained from commenting on the last few weeks in American politics. This has largely been for selfish reasons: the constant news coverage, be it televised or “Twitterized,” has been, quite frankly, exhausting and I just did not have the energy to comment on any of it. Of course I am talking about the […]

]]> Christianity Has Had a “Male Problem” From the Start….And That Isn’t a Bad Thing https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2018/09/christianity-has-had-a-male-problem-from-the-start-and-that-isnt-a-bad-thing/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:58:58 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1626 A recent blog post by British NT scholar Ian Paul laments the lack of men in Western churches. While one has to speak in quite general terms on this topic and thus speak cautiously (both Paul and myself, for instance, do not fit the general trend, as we have academic theological training and are deeply religious, […]

]]> Once More On the Resurrection of Christ, Against the Liberal Fundamentalists https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2018/09/once-more-on-the-resurrection-of-christ-against-the-liberal-fundamentalists/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 02:41:35 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1535 Another day, another “discussion” on the Christian Twittersphere. Over the last several days, a good deal contention has erupted between Christians. As with all such social media disputes, the origin of the name-calling “debate” is a bit convoluted. As far as I can tell Broderick Greer, an Episcopal priest, fired the opening shot: https://twitter.com/BroderickGreer/status/1034858971826479105 This […]

]]> “It is better for him if a millstone is hung around his neck…” https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2018/08/it-is-better-for-him-if-a-millstone-is-hung-around-his-neck/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 02:05:10 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1503 Modern Western Christians largely ignore the biblical texts relating to divine judgment. One need only look at the neglect of preaching on the Old Testament in American churches, particularly the prophets, or the carefully edited Jesus who only ever seems to preach the Beatitudes and never anything related to the defeat of evil and eschatological […]

]]> The Resurrection of the Body: Spiritual? Physical? Both, Actually. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/2018/08/the-resurrection-of-the-body-spiritual-physical-both-actually/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:30:37 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/thechristianrevolution/?p=1453 David Bentley Hart recently wrote a fascinating essay on the nature of the resurrection body over at Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal. The background of the essay is an ongoing debate that Hart has been having with N.T. Wright over their respective translations of the New Testament. Wright published his own translation, The Kingdom New […]

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