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March 2018

March 30, 2018

If He “Emptied Himself” Was He Still God? A Good Friday Question

Good Friday is a good day to think about kenotic Christology. Kenosis is a tranliteration...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

Kierkegaard on the Incarnation: God is Like an Artist

I recently stumbled across a quote from Kierkegaard, in his journals, where he reflects on...

August 2017

August 10, 2017

“A Complicated Pregnancy” Now Available for Pre-Order

I'm happy to announce that a book I've been working on for the past two...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

The Fundamentalist Heresy: Jesus was a Superhuman Person

I haven't blogged much lately. The reason for that is I've been finishing a draft...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

God, the Motherly Father

"Our Father, who art in heaven..." This phrase is repeated countless times in countless churches...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Did God Really Say, “Show Them No Mercy”? God, Genocide, and the Bible

Recently I raised the tough problem of violence in the Bible.   The Bible includes...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

What they Didn’t Teach Me in Seminary: Theology is About Power!

Conflict. Imperial violence. Embezzlement. Declarations of heresy. Coercion. Arrest and torture. Exile. This is all...

April 03, 2015

Could Jesus Have Been Overcome?

As I wrote in my last post, many theologians throughout history have been freaked out...

April 02, 2015

Gethsemane: The Most Troubling Story in the Bible?

The Garden of Gethsemane story has given theologians fits. Many of them, particularly in the...

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