Colossians: the supreme tao of Jesus (a commentary)
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Paul’s letter to the Colossian church was written to help those Christians understand that everything we do or say or think or believe centers on, in, and around…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
Christus Victor: overcoming the crushing defeats of ordinary life
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”When I was a kid growing up in church we used to sing this song, Victory in Jesus. And, whether it was the song or something else, it…
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