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When my son was 5 or so, we were watching TV and a commercial came on giving aid to starving children in Africa. I think it was the first time he had ever seen pictures of emaciated toddlers surrounded by flies. I watched him watching the commercial and decided to […]
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Be Curious
One of the areas in parenting where fear fights curiosity the most is in regard to faith. I remember correcting […]
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Exchanging a Leather Bound God for an Imperfect Bible
“I don’t know what to do with the Bible anymore” is a refrain that too many of us have come […]
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Reading from the End (with children)
Hannah (an alias) is an undiscerning fan of R-rated literature. Granted, the exclusive focus of this compulsive vice is her […]
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The Learning Human Jesus and the Human Bible
I am especially delighted to write this piece for the Bible for Normal People social media outlet, since there is […]
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Rainbows, Gold Lamé, and Jesus
What This Evangelical Mom Learned at her First Pride I attended my first Pride festival in 2019, and no one […]
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Top 10 B4NP Podcast Episodes of All Time
As you’ve probably heard, we’re moving to our bi-weekly podcast schedule for the summer. Just in case you’ll miss us, […]
Continue ReadingProtestant Evangelical theology continues to struggle with the fact of evolution. Why? One reason is that the groundwork of Evangelical theology was laid centuries ago in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, long before the theory of evolution arose. Baked onto the Evangelical theological system, therefore, is the belief that […]
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Relationship Status with the Rules in the Bible: It’s Complicated
I find so many Christians who have a complicated and inconsistent relationship with moral rules. I have found that’s partly […]
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Does Your God Recycle?
This blog post is taken, more or less as is, from my book How The Bible Actually Works. You can […]
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Doubt: It’s Not Cool or Hipster, but Sacred
Being “saved” by God is an ongoing process of growth and transformation, of dying and rising, of being “conformed to […]
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The Bible Really Isn’t About “History,” Really
So, here’s the thing. When we read any piece of literature that deals with the past, we are actually dealing […]
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“Aha” Moments: Biblical Scholars Tell Their Stories – Pete Enns
Following my last post, here is the first installment of a series – biblical scholars from evangelical backgrounds telling their stories about […]
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Dealing With the Bible: A Conversation Between Then and Now.
So, here’s my point. There is virtually nothing in the Bible that doesn’t look very similar to what we know […]
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Did the Exodus Story Really Happen?
This blog post was adapted from my recent YouTube video. Good question, and the answer isn’t straightforward. On the positive […]
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The “Pete Ruins Christmas” Series: Jesus the Jewish King
Many of you no doubt are familiar with this Christmas hymn, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”: O come, O come, […]
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The Law of Love
In the Bible scholars often talk of two kinds of law: apodictic and casuistic. These are part of a collection […]
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Author Spotlight: John Sanders
Today’s author is John Sanders and the book is Embracing Prodigals: Overcoming Authoritative Religion by Embodying Jesus’ Nurturing Grace. John […]
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God is Not A Being
A God whose existence or nonexistence you can argue is a thing beside others within the universe of existing things. […]
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Author Spotlight: Drew Hart
Today’s author is Dr. Drew Hart and the book is Who Will Be A Witness? Dr. Drew G. I. Hart […]
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