Fideistic Christianity may look bold, but it is fragile.
10/02/25
He doesn’t consume us, even though that is what we deserve. Instead, Jesus comes down to us and consumes all our sin by taking it on himself.
10/01/25
This article is the first part of a two-part series. The second part will take a look at when pastors abuse their congregations.
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09/22/14
Wouldn’t it be great if there were something that could de-shame us?
09/19/14
When I revisit in my mind the very long list of stupid, mean, selfish things I’ve done, every one of them began with me saying something I shouldn’t have.
09/17/14
It’ll eat you alive, won’t it? We begin to think we’re victims, as if the whole world is conspiring against us to deprive us of what we deserve.
09/16/14
Anti-intellectualism goes straight out the window when a topic truly matters to us. I can’t recall how many times I’ve noticed the same folks who disdain academic jargon start using bigger, more technical words than I in one of three circumstances.
09/09/14
Being thrown in the pit was but one of the many smoking guns that the prosecutor could bring forth as evidence.
09/09/14
One gets science or religion, but not both. Today’s model swings to the other end of the pendulum, flirting with an extreme inclusivity. One gets science and religion, as long as they are properly understood.
08/26/14
God wired us to be storytellers. God made man in his own image and that image includes a rational mind that communicates in large part through stories.
08/24/14
That all being said, come to think of it, I’ve never gone 24 seconds without sinning.
08/14/14
This chorus digs below the surface to reveal that beneath our chosen self-medications, be they alcohol or drugs or overeating or smoking or bed-hopping, you’ll unearth the real killer. And “it ain’t the whiskey.”
08/14/14
Barth's ideas resulted in a movement known as neo-orthodoxy, sometimes called dialectical theology, theology of crisis, or simply Barthianism.
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08/12/14
Imagine a world in which it is always winter but never Christmas. Imagine a place where Deep Magic from the dawn of time requires the blood of the innocent be shed to save the guilty.
08/05/14
Today I have a hankering to talk about beavers. Who doesn’t love beavers? The binomial nomenclature reads Castor canadensis.
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