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April 2012

April 04, 2012

A Better Atonement: Nothing Is Solved by Murder

This week, as we prepare for Good Friday and Easter, we'll have a post every...

April 03, 2012

Reading Gagnon: Two More Prejudices [Scot]

This week, Scot Miller is blogging about Robert Gagnon's book, The Bible and Homosexual Practice:...

April 02, 2012

Reading Gagnon: Getting Ready [Scot]

This week, Scot Miller is blogging about Robert Gagnon's book, The Bible and Homosexual Practice:...

April 02, 2012

A Better Atonement: When Atonement Begins

This week, as we prepare for Good Friday and Easter, we'll have a post every...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

For Whom Did Jesus Die?

Well, on the very face of it, you have to say that Jesus died for...

March 13, 2012

Who Was Barabbas?

In a couple weeks, I'm preaching at a church in Texas. It's Baptist church...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

The Silence of Jesus (on Homosexuality)

I've been thinking more about the post I wrote last week about Daniel Kirk's new book, Jesus...

January 19, 2012

False Dichotomies, True Love, and Homosexuality

This post is part of a blog tour for Daniel Kirk's new book, Jesus Have...

December 2011

December 26, 2011

Shane Hipps: Salvation IS Liberation

Shane has a nice, brief reflection on this season and the birth of a Savior:...

December 08, 2011

The Bible Made Impossible: Part Two – The Cure

This post is part of a three-part series on The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

There’s No Biblical Solution to Your Problem

Richard Beck says "biblical" doesn't mean what you think it means: Recently I was invited...

October 23, 2011

Daniel Kirk on Jesus’ Eschatology

Fuller professor Daniel Kirk is quickly becoming one of my favorite bloggers. This week, he...

October 17, 2011

Picking and Choosing Your Bible Verses (or, Why To Abandon the Lectionary)

I led the sermon discussion last night at Solomon's Porch. The text was Galatians 3,...

October 16, 2011

Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible

Via: OpenBible.info HT: Bob Carlton

September 2011

September 12, 2011

The Funny Thing about Michele Bachmann and Jonathan

As reported by Eric Black at MinnPost, Michele Bachmann recently used a speech to make...

August 2011

August 13, 2011

NOT an Onion Headline: Evangelicals Admit Adam and Eve May Not Have Existed

This just in from NPR: And Venema is part of a growing cadre of Christian...

August 12, 2011

I Am an Incarnational Christian: The Theology

Although, I confess, I liked the term "kerygmatic Christian" at first, I've come to see...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

Will the Last Evangelical Please Turn Out the Lights? (Con’t)

In my ongoing series, pointing out the impending evangepocalypse, I bring you this news from...

July 19, 2011

Jesus Was Not a “Biblical Christian”

Today on Twitter, Chris Blackstone went out on a limb and said that persons who...

July 12, 2011

Biblical Marriage

Bruce Bawer at The Dish recounts the multifarious forms of "marriage" cataloged in the Bible:...

May 2011

May 11, 2011

Are You an Acts 2 Church?

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times: some erstwhile young church...

May 03, 2011

The Gospel According to Nadia

The good people of Denver put their spiritual lives at risk by asking Nadia Bolz-Weber...

March 2011

March 07, 2011

The Post You NEED to Read about Universalism

It resides at Keith DeRose's site. Keith, often referenced by me, is a philosophy professor...

March 05, 2011

February 2011

February 21, 2011

But Do I Believe in Angels?

I'll be honest, my post "I Don't Believe in Demons" led to the single biggest...

February 03, 2011

Christian Universalism: Cosmology

Being that I've been to Italy a dozen times, as a student, a tourist, and...

January 2011

January 25, 2011

Anti-Jewish Rhetoric in the Gospel of John

As I wrote last week, I had the good fortune of co-leading the...

January 18, 2011

Jay Bakker Reads the Bible More than You

That's pretty much the bottom line of my post at Patheos on Jay's new book:...

January 04, 2011

The Possibility of Christian Universalism

Well, the issue of Christian universalism didn't "pop" last year, as I had predicted, but...

October 2010

October 18, 2010

Chiasms, Irony, and Misdirection in John 4

Last night, I once again had the pleasure to lead the sermon discussion at Solomon's...