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2018-08-16T14:21:38-05:00

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N.T. Wright Speaking at Google? N.T. Wright Speaking at Google!!

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Zach Hoag

And it’s all kinds of awesome. See what happens when the good bishop bring some Simply Good News (not good advice) to those at the mecca of technology: What are your thoughts? Read more

2018-08-16T14:21:39-05:00

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But For the Grace of God: Tullian Tchividjian and a Better Gospel Through Guilt

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Zach Hoag

Image from video screenshot. On Sunday night, Tullian Tchividjian, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian (mega-)Church, resigned because of a recent affair. In fact, he explained that his affair was a response of sorts to his wife’s previous affair, though I’m sure there’s a lot more to it than that. In any case, Tullian is a famous pastor, author, and speaker who has devoted his public work to a single topic: Grace. After his resignation Sunday, he tweeted this: Welcome to the... Read more

2018-08-16T14:21:39-05:00

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Take Down That Flag – But Don’t Stop There. The Wolves Have Teeth. [James Gribble]

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Guest Contributor

photo: agasfer, CC via Flickr When that one flag comes down in Charleston, watch how many flags go up all over the country. Watch how they sell out at the truck stops. The removal of one flag is not the end of anything. It is another beginning. It will provoke this hateful ideology to greater boldness. When symbols of (White) supremacy are supplanted, beneficiaries of the status quo will always circle their young and show their teeth. It isn’t as if... Read more

2018-08-16T14:21:39-05:00

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On Coming Back (But Don’t Call It a Comeback!)

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Zach Hoag

Sometimes it’s time to come back. This blog has been dormant for a few months because I thought it was time to go. And it was. At the time. And all of the reasons for my then-permanent, now-temporary departure are still true, with perhaps one adjustment that has become clear after some time away. Yes, I have a much clearer sense of calling and direction these days, with a better grip on the spaces I want to work and write in... Read more

2018-08-16T14:21:39-05:00

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I Wanted War and I Was Wrong

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Zach Hoag

I remember debating the crunchy telemark ski instructors at the resort where I worked as Snowboard Director. I had watched the Gulf War on TV and I had watched the Twin Towers fall on TV and it seemed like another one of the former would be a fine and dandy solution to the latter. When Bush got Congress to approve the invasion of Iraq, I wanted war. At that time in my life, I was full – full of ideas culled mainly... Read more

2018-08-16T14:21:39-05:00

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I Wanted War and I Was Wrong

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Zach Hoag

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2018-08-16T14:21:40-05:00

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Stop Talking About Women in Ministry

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Zach Hoag

We need to stop talking about women in ministry. Really, we do. Because every time we, men, talk about women in ministry we, perhaps inadvertently, place ourselves in the center of the conversation. We essentially communicate that we, men, are the ones who get to debate the “issue” of women in ministry. We, men, are the ones who are authoritative enough to adjudicate the “matter” at hand. We, men, are the ones who can, in the affirmative or the negative, make the decision and... Read more

2018-08-16T14:21:40-05:00

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God Is Out of Control – a Guest Post By Michael Hidalgo

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Zach Hoag

This is an excerpt from Changing Faith: Questions, Doubts and Choices About an Unchanging God, a new book by Michael Hidalgo. We live each day walking on a thin veneer of certainty.Many of us live with a desire to control things because it gives us security and certainty. We want control so badly we even try to control God. It’s almost as if we place boundaries around him, box him in and create a framework for him. We look for him in... Read more

2018-08-16T14:21:40-05:00

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God is Out of Control – a Guest Post By Michael Hidalgo

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Guest Contributor

We live each day walking on a thin veneer of certainty. Many of us live with a desire to control things because it gives us security and certainty. We want control so badly we even try to control God. It’s almost as if we place boundaries around him, box him in and create a framework for him. We look for him in all the expected places, thinking he will work within the small world we create for him. Read more

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2018-08-16T14:21:40-05:00

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Seeing Red (Letters): Can a Jesus-Centered Interpretation Be So Easily Dismissed?

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm By Zach Hoag

Yesterday, a writer I really like wrote a piece at Christianity Today that I really didn’t like. The article criticized the “Red Letter Christians” movement by appealing to how one understands narration in other forms of literature. For the uninitiated, Red Letter Christians promote a Jesus-centered interpretation of Scripture; the CT article contended that this interpretation doesn’t do justice to God as the author of all Scripture, speaking reliably through his narrators. In other words, you can’t have the red letters without the black ones. Amidst other methodological problems... Read more

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