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A confession: I’ve never taken to the term “progressive” Christianity. A bit too highhanded and dismissive for my tastes, even if I agree with the need to move beyond certain conservative Protestant ways of thinking. “Progressive” has also become one of those no-win, dead-in-the-water, polarizing labels, like “socialism,” “woke,” or […]
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Digging into Cultural Context
As both a Hebrew Bible scholar and archaeologist, I enjoy engaging in conversations related to ancient Israel as seen in […]
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What the Gospels Teach Us About Salvation
What did Jesus’s death life do: Part 2 In my last blog post, I argued that we would understand salvation […]
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Why We Should Not Redeem ‘Fundamentalist Evangelicalism’
Note: This is a response to Alisa Childers’ recent article at The Gospel Coalition, “Why We Should Not Redeem ‘Deconstruction‘.” […]
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Why Paul’s Letters Are Inadequate for Understanding Salvation
What did Jesus’s death life do: Part 1 A couple of months ago, I hopped on the podcast with Pete […]
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Our (Weird) Heavens Are (Also) Telling Us about God
So here is our thought for the day: how we see the world around us and how we see God […]
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Reading the Bible with a Jesus-Centered Approach
Recently, I wrote about the challenge we face when we are taught to “do what the Bible says,” as though […]
Continue ReadingWhen 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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Picking and Choosing From the Bible
I think we should stop using “You just pick and choose what you apply from the Bible” as an insult. […]
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Author Spotlight: Luke T. Harrington
Today’s author is Luke T. Harrington and the book is Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem. Luke T. Harrington is the only […]
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Top* 10 Things Love Matters More Than
*By “Top,” I mean things that just came to me off the top of my head in the past 10 […]
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White Privilege Is Actually a Thing
I’ve reflected on that moment a lot since. It dawned on me this was the first time I really saw and felt my white privilege. I have never in my life walked into any kind of store and had employees stop what they are doing, stare, and begin plotting what to do about me because of the color of my skin.
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The Great Unbiblical Political Error of White American Evangelicalism
White Evangelicalism’s overwhelming support for Donald Trump continues to be a source of bewilderment, if not exasperation, among Christians of […]
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Why God Isn’t Always Behind Our Successes or Failures (Thankfully)
There is a karma-like understanding in the Bible that we find particularly in the book of Deuteronomy. If you do […]
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Resources for Justice
Rather than air our regularly scheduled episode, we felt it was important to step back and promote educational resources by […]
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Author Spotlight: Zack Hunt
Today’s author is Zack Hunt and the book is Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets It Wrong. Zack Hunt is […]
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Pete’s Bible Trivia Bonanza #12 — Jeremiah Didn’t Have a Pentateuch
The prophet Jeremiah lived during the time when the Babylonians invaded Judah (beginning in 597 BCE) and then captured Jerusalem […]
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Reading the Bible With Mutual Respect
I don’t know about you but I grew up with this nagging thought in the back of my mind when […]
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Rachel Held Evans and Her God
I am thinking about Rachel’s passing a year ago, along with many of you. I continue to mourn the tremendous […]
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Author Spotlight: Melissa Florer-Bixler
Have you ever said to yourself, “AHHHHHHHHHH there are so many great books out there I want to read and […]
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