Cheer Up (it’s not the end of the world!): a commentary on Genesis 1 & 2
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Once upon a time… A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… In the beginning… These words have a mythic quality to them, don’t you think?…
The Crux: the story of God’s victory over evil
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”The Crux is not a Bible per se. It is a tool. It’s a way for you to better understand the whole story of the Christian Bible in…
The Crux: an illustrated, annotated, abridged, harmonized version of the Christian Bible
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”The Crux is not a Bible per se. It is a tool. It’s a way for you to better understand the whole story of the Christian Bible in…
Telos: the purpose of life on earth
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Most people don’t seem to grow much, if at all, after the first year or so of becoming Christians. They think becoming a Christian was all they needed…
Stranger Manger: recovering the oddities of the nativity story
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”The strangeness of the nativity is often overlooked: The King of the Universe comes to live on the ramshackle third planet of a backwoods solar system in a…
Ecclesiastes: the Cobblestone translation
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Creating a cobblestone translation of the Bible is a devotional practice that entails reading every English translation of scripture and then carefully selecting each verse that best resonates…
Smoke and Dust: a commentary on Ecclesiastes
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Been there, done that? Feel like everything that you could ever possibly do would just be more of the same old tired mess. Because I have. There are…
Sleeping Beauty: a theology of art and aesthetics
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=” Beauty is how God penetrates the armor of our indifference. We grow deaf so quickly to teaching and sermonizing and authority–blind to example and skill in living–sometimes…
Cybertron Nativity: what makes the Autobots rejoice?
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”I’m always looking for ways to help my kids contextualize the gospel. I want to keep them thinking and dreaming, imagining and re-visioning. Especially since they’re pastor’s kids….
Pocket Gods: a fable about worship and transformation
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Several years prior to the IOS game of the same name, I wrote a short story called Pocket Gods to illustrate how proximity and intentionality form us. I…
Pagan Pageantry: how the secular roots of Christmas traditions teach us about engaging our culture today
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Christmas has pagan roots, but that shouldn’t alarm us. Those roots don’t mean our celebrations are fraudulent or inspired by idolatry. Quite the opposite. Our adaptation of festivals…
Kosmos: learning to love the world
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”For many Christians, it has become popular to dismiss “the world” as something evil or degenerate. Religious folks seem to take pleasure in decrying the worldly ways of…