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July 2018

July 31, 2018

Does Our Society Suffer from ADHD?

ADHD, formerly called ADD, stands for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (Refer here for a discussion of...

July 25, 2018

Political Partisanship and Evangelism

Over at The New York Times, Frank Bruni wrote on the subject of "Trump's Relentless...

July 14, 2018

Cyber Attacks, Public Discord and Anonymous Messiahs

Reuters reported yesterday: “U.S. intel chief warns of devastating cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure.” U.S....

July 13, 2018

Breaking the Law is Quintessentially American and Biblical

I find a lot of “They broke the law…Send them back” claims in the immigration...

July 06, 2018

How Multi-Faith Engagement Matters: An Interview with John W. Morehead, Part II

John W. Morehead is the Director of the Evangelical Chapter of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy. He...

July 03, 2018

Multi-Faith Matters: An Interview with John W. Morehead

John W. Morehead is the Director of the Evangelical Chapter of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy. He...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

Be Guarded with the Use of the Nazi and Anarchist Labels

The name-calling from across the ideological spectrum has perhaps reached new heights in America and...

June 27, 2018

Judge People on the Content of Their Character, Not Country of Origin or Religion

Judge people based on the content of their character, not country of origin or religion....

June 19, 2018

Focusing on the Family Includes Asylum-Seeking Migrants

Three names that were hallowed in my Evangelical Christian community when I was growing up...

June 18, 2018

Casual Sex and Casual Faith: A Fatal Fixation

Casual sex can refer to one night stands and non-relational sex, where there are no...

June 16, 2018

Jesus and Jerusalem: A Complex and Troubling Relationship

The canonical gospels present Jesus’ complex and troubling relationship with Jerusalem. Take for example Matthew...

June 10, 2018

How to Build a Global Missional Movement: Be Open-Handed

How do you build a global missional movement rather than a monument? More precisely, how...

June 09, 2018

“Have Dominion”: Colonialism and Urban Renewal

Colonialism is not a thing of the past. It takes place today in urban contexts...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

New Book Announcement – “Beatitudes, Not Platitudes: Jesus’ Invitation to the Good Life” by Paul Louis Metzger

Beatitudes, Not Platitudes shows that the Beatitudes are not overused, well-worn answers to the question,...

May 12, 2018

Secure Identity Leads to Humility and Civility, Part I

I believe one of the reasons why we find so little civility in American culture...

May 08, 2018

Jonathan Edwards, Spider Webs and You, Part III

Have you ever come across a spider web still under construction? So it was with...

May 05, 2018

How to Build a Global Missional Movement: Be Open to Change

How do you build a global missional movement rather than a monument? More precisely, how...

May 04, 2018

Jonathan Edwards, Spider Webs and You, Part II

How many spider webs have you seen? Do you find a beautiful symmetry in each...

April 2018

April 28, 2018

Hebrews’ Closing Announcements: Missional Action Steps

How often do you carefully read the church bulletin or listen to closing announcements? If...

April 27, 2018

Jonathan Edwards, Spider Webs and You, Part I

On most accounts, Jonathan Edwards is considered one of America’s greatest intellectuals and spiritual influences....

April 21, 2018

Don’t Despair on Heartbreak Hill. Run with Endurance.

I have heard reports of how difficult it is to run Heartbreak Hill at the...

April 18, 2018

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Muscular Apologetics and the Suffering God

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s[1] posthumously published work Letters and Papers from Prison receives mixed reviews from various...

April 14, 2018

Faith Alone Does Not Mean You Have to Go It Alone

I grew up in a Protestant tradition that took seriously Luther’s declaration “faith alone.” We...

April 09, 2018

If You Could Be God, What Kind of God Would You Be?

If you could be God, what kind of God would you be? A God of...

April 04, 2018

Dr King Speaks Today. Are We Listening?

In his Vietnam War sermon titled “Beyond Vietnam” delivered on April 4, 1967—one year to...

April 02, 2018

Bourgeois Theology and Jesus’ Kingdom Come of Age

As radical and as progressive as they were in their historical contexts, Kant, Hegel and...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Jesus’ Victory Doesn’t End on Easter. It Lasts Forever.

Jesus’ victory doesn’t end on Easter. It lasts forever. Just ask the author of Hebrews...

March 26, 2018

Schleiermacher and Us: Focused on Religion’s Cultured Despisers, or Those Despised by the Cultured?

In “Evangelical Theology in the 19th Century,” Karl Barth writes, “There is hardly any doubt...

March 19, 2018

On Hegel: If the Real Is the Rational, How Real Are You?

I appreciate Hegel’s effort to unite the disparate domains in Kant’s philosophy. To repeat a...

March 19, 2018

Hebrews—Jesus Is a Faithful High Priest, Unlike Vampires. Hold Fast in Faith.

The Book of Hebrews presents Jesus as a faithful high priest who offered himself up...

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