Gratitude
In his book Free of Charge, theologian Miroslav Volf shares a funny thought experiment. He tells us to imagine we’ve been invited to an all-expenses-paid ski holiday, flown to a…
What Jesus Didn’t Do (Kindness By Omission)
On Friday, October 4, 2013 Jodi Detrick—special correspondent to the Seattle Times—published an article online called “Lessons from what Jesus didn’t do.” The premise of the article was that Jesus…
Does God Judge?
There are several harsh descriptions of judgment in The Revelation. We must rightly wonder how a “good” God can justify such seemingly wanton destruction. Several initial points must here be…
Prepositional Truth Not Propositional Truth
Whenever we speak in public about large-scale problems that affect a myriad of people, we must speak in code. But coded language is useless to the extent that it is…
Is this the beginning?
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Since Adam and Eve certainly didn’t write Genesis 1…who did? Who is responsible for penning the most important framing narrative of Judeo-Christian spirituality? Most will answer that it…
The Valley of Dry Bones (a fictional reconstruction)
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Sometimes I wonder where the prophecies in the Bible come from. I mean, I know they come from God…but what about the context of the prophet’s life? Surely…
Ezekiel 37: the cobblestone translation for the Valley of Dry Bones
[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…
Nehemiah: a commentary
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_wp_text text=”Nehemiah is famous for rebuilding his city, the City of Peace, Jerusalem. Jerusalem has become a broken down, ramshackle version of its former self. Annihilated by the Persians…
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