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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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Al Mohler and the “Apparent Age” of the Cosmos
Al Mohler believes that God created the cosmos, including humanity, about 6000 years ago, but with “apparent age.” That means […]
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What Al Mohler Thinks about the Bible and Evolution (and why I am concerned enough to write about it).
Rev. Al Mohler holds strong views on the Bible, what it means to read it correctly, and how taking the […]
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Have Evangelicals Made the Bible Impossible?
I just received my copy of Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible (Brazos) and am eager to alert interested readers about […]
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