Bible Translation as Political Power Move: Social Location and the ESV I’m currently teaching a three-part seminar among the congregation I serve on biblical interpretation. This is my second time teaching… Continue reading “Bible Translation as Political Power Move: Social Location and the ESV”…
Teaching the Book of Revelation Since Easter, I’ve been reading and teaching on the book of Revelation during the teaching ministry of our Sunday worship gatherings. We decided… Continue reading “Teaching the Book of Revelation”…
Chemical & Idolatry: Reflections on a Jack Garratt Track and the Apocalypse of John Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such… Continue reading “Chemical & Idolatry: Reflections on a Jack Garratt Track and the Apocalypse of John”…
Evil and the God Who is Love: A Review of Thomas Jay Oord’s The Uncontrolling Love of God When Blueprints Fail In 15 years of full-time Christian ministry, I had not presided over a funeral service until yesterday.… Continue reading “Evil and the God Who is Love: A Review of Thomas Jay Oord’s The Uncontrolling Love of God”…
SBL/AAR 2014: Theology Nerd Heaven This past weekend, I spent four days in sunny San Diego at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical… Continue reading “SBL/AAR 2014: Theology Nerd Heaven”…
Calvinism Debate Featuring Brian Zahnd and Austin Fischer Last Wednesday, Zondervan and the Sojourn Network (a New Calvinist church planting group) partnered to sponsor a debate on Calvinism… Continue reading “Calvinism Debate Featuring Brian Zahnd and Austin Fischer”…
God is Loving Savior, the Savingly Loved One, and Saving Love Itself: Reflections on Moltmann’s “Doxological Trinity” Some Christians think God became a Savior only after the historical crucifixion of Messiah Jesus of Nazareth. For these Christians, God is… Continue reading “God is Loving Savior, the Savingly Loved One, and Saving Love Itself: Reflections on Moltmann’s “Doxological Trinity””…
Black Jesus Heaven and the Bible are all the rage at the movies right now—as if Hollywood producers are just now realizing… Continue reading “Black Jesus”…
The Micah Conference & Racial Righteousness Last week I was honored to be one of the keynote speakers at the 2014 Micah Conference held at Park… Continue reading “The Micah Conference & Racial Righteousness”…
Blog Series on ‘The Politics of Impassibility’ A five-part series on ‘The Politics of Impassibility’ based on thoughts from the book Mañana by Hispanic theologian and historian Justo González. Part 1:… Continue reading “Blog Series on ‘The Politics of Impassibility’”…