I don’t know if I’ll do this regularly — I mean I’ll try — but I thought I’d tried to start sharing some of the things I’ve been reading each week here, both new and old. I hope they are thought provoking and you find some other writers worth following. Brian Zahnd: Election Season and… Continue reading Worthy Discoveries and Hidden Gems: 241025

Who needs this reminder? Probably everybody. Almost everyone I know is walking around nervous, fearful, wringing their hands, checking the polls every five minutes, and just generally concerned about the upcoming election. My personal opinion is that one side of the country actually represents an existential threat to democracy. If you read my blog, it… Continue reading Important Election Reminder: God’s Got This

Proverbs 19:21 The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.” Sometimes I look at the options in my life and they seem like a dot-to-dot puzzle with no numbers to guide me. Just an endless sea of dots, a swarm of options and no… Continue reading Connecting the Dots

Progressive Christianity. Some people I’ve met would consider that an oxymoron. If you listen to the news and many political candidates, it would seem that there is only one right way to be a Christian in America and it requires conservative ideals and biblical inerrancy. If you start from the point of view that the… Continue reading Progressive Christianity

Something funny happened on the sixth day of creation: Genesis 1:27 So God created humans in his image,    in the image of God he created them;    male and female he created them. You see, it says right there in the first chapter of the Bible that God created man and woman. So does that mean there’s nothing… Continue reading It’s Adam and Eve, Not Christopher and Olivia

The story of David and Goliath is one of the most popular stories in the Bible. I can remember being very heartened by it as a young child. I went to a religious school for most of my pre-college experiences. Even though I am 6’ 2” today, I was a year or more younger than… Continue reading Are We David or Goliath?

I didn’t intend to write about Romans 1 today. I intended to approach it at some point in the future with greater depth than I will probably accomplish here. Romans itself is extremely complex and mired in several hundreds of years of specific interpretations that I’m not sure Paul ever intended. Romans 1 is especially… Continue reading Romans 1 Is Not About Same-sex Relationships

I live near a church – I’ll keep it nameless to protect the innocent, but yeah, it’s one of those churches – that recently put up a banner that reads, “Genesis: The Gospel from the Beginning.” Oh boy, where do I start? Let’s get the usual snark out of my system first. What do I… Continue reading It Started with the Resurrection, Not Genesis

Sometimes I think Protestants have approached theology like the Bible is a big box of jigsaw puzzle pieces and if we just had enough time and patience, we’d be able to fit everything together. This is what some scholars would call a presumption of univocality. In other words, God is the ultimate author of the… Continue reading Puzzle Pieces and Bridges

One of the main reasons I started this blog is to defend our faith against both materialists and fundamentalists. Christianity is being attacked from without and within by these two camps. Today I felt a need to take up some common atheist arguments. I’ve argued against these before, but they keep coming up in various… Continue reading Here I Go Railing At Atheists Again