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When It’s Okay to Ignore Jesus
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Is the Historical Jesus Biblical?
It turns out that the idea that there is a difference between the Jesus that...
March 2020
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Baby Yoda and the Biblical Canon
When my wife started to watch the show, she had expectations for many of the...
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The Bible’s All-Too Human Origins
The Bible is neither mysterious nor straightforward in how we have come to read it....
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When the Bible Rejects Its Own Stories
If one of the creation stories of the Israelites could end up being rejected and...
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God Isn’t Calling You to Him
... it is not merely the case that God calls to us, as if God...
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Are You Reading the Bible Wrong?
The task of modern Christianity, as I see it, is moving forward with a healthier...
October 03, 2018
Inerrancy and the Gnostic Heresy
Modern fundamentalist Christians who espouse the idea of inerrancy may not ever imagine that they...
October 01, 2018
Dreaming About the Bible at Yale Divinity School
Today marks the beginning of week six of my first semester at one of the...
June 2018
June 04, 2018
Can Adventism Accept Same-Sex Marriage?
The current position of the Adventist church is vastly out of step with its earlier...
April 2018
April 01, 2018
If A Woman Can’t Be Ordained, She Can’t Be Married
...the reality is that whoever wrote this letter, whether Paul or his disciple, they (in...
March 2018
March 31, 2018
Is the Holy Spirit a Skeptic?
Paul, in a sense, explicitly denies that the Spirit can or would endorse anything non-rational...
March 29, 2018
Paul’s Humble Philosophy: What Christianity Forgot
Paul’s speech argues, from a Christian perspective to other Christians, that they as Christians currently...
December 2017
December 17, 2017
Was Jesus Really Born of a Virgin?
Perhaps the stories in Matthew and Luke are indeed edifying fiction and parables as some scholars have long speculated (or...
December 05, 2017
The Story of Jesus’ Birth is Not Essential
The writers of the New Testament demonstrate that it's possible to be in communion as...
December 01, 2017
Should Gay Christians Remain Celibate?
What is clear to me is that we as a Church who pride ourselves on...
November 2017
November 30, 2017
Did Jesus Know Who Wrote the Book(s) of Isaiah?
It is odd that Jesus at no point in the four gospels quotes any material past...
November 03, 2017
Your Bible Is Missing A Few Verses
4,000,000+ people on YouTube... and countless others across the world are reciting a verse in...
October 2017
October 31, 2017
The Forgotten Truth About Halloween & the Bible
Did you know: Though Halloween is often berated by Ultra-Conservative Christians as a negative or...
October 28, 2017
Christians Need to Defend Gay Marriage
"When Roy Moore voices his opposition to the Supreme Court's decision to recognize Gay Marriage,...
October 25, 2017
Confession: I Don’t Believe Jesus Loves Me
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October 21, 2017
The King James Bible Removed Verses
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