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June 2018

June 12, 2018
Many Christians today act as if Jesus gave a great suggestion instead of a great...

May 2018

May 18, 2018
I’ve had the privilege of participating in a book study group at Schole House, a...
May 16, 2018
A recent controversy at the Southern Baptist Convention reminds us that living out Christian principles...
May 15, 2018
Nighttime was especially dangerous on the West Bank – we always tried to get back...

March 2018

March 23, 2018
Different sounds accompany great disasters.  An earthquake begins with the rumble of heaving earth and...
March 12, 2018
As I welcomed Easter parishioners, I noted the normalcy of the morning. A typical Seattle...

February 2018

February 26, 2018
“When we define, we seem in danger of circumscribing nature within the bounds of our...
February 22, 2018
He was the same person in private as he was in public.
February 14, 2018
Watching the Winter Olympics from South Korea brought to mind someone I met at a...
February 09, 2018
If God has given His metaphoric thumbs up to sexual relations for purposes other than...

January 2018

January 31, 2018
“I don’t read it because it scares me. All that stuff about life being meaningless,”...
January 16, 2018
How can a God of love permit such suffering in the world?
January 12, 2018
If we were to lean more fully into the concept of bonus time, how would...
January 02, 2018
There are 3 kinds of people in the world; those who haven’t persevered, those who...

December 2017

December 12, 2017
Some have gone so far as to claim that, as a penal substitute, Christ became...
December 04, 2017
I came to love liturgy late, but I am not going to leave it.

November 2017

November 30, 2017
Since so much evangelical political theology is a string of tropes and one-liners, this term,...
November 02, 2017
Here's a question worth asking a divided and confused generation.

October 2017

October 30, 2017
For better and for worse, Christian and non-Christian, we live in a world dramatically shaped...
October 06, 2017
What truths can we cling to in order to somehow cope with this massive act...
October 03, 2017
Do thoughts and prayers matter when hundreds are waking up with the news that their...

September 2017

September 29, 2017
I know, I know—this is a radical change of view for many people. Stay with...
September 25, 2017
Is the Nashville Statement pastoral (enough) in approach?
September 04, 2017
The angry refusals of the Nashville Statement have been sadly revealing; the mincing and squeamish...

August 2017

August 31, 2017
So what’s the best question to ask a skeptic?
August 25, 2017
We too often condense complex biblical concepts into sentence-long platitudes that do more to misrepresents...

July 2017

July 13, 2017
According to the Bible, certain “birth pains” will presage the end of this world and...

May 2017

May 24, 2017
If you could travel back in time to the year 100 to visit several of...
May 24, 2017
At some point in each of our lives, we have wondered what our purpose is...
May 15, 2017
When we are in anxiety inducing circumstances, we should figure out what we need and...
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