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The 4 Jesuses I Love (And I Don‘t Mean the 4 Gospels)
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Jesus, but there isn’t just one...
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How Smoking a Pipe Turned Me Into a Calvinist
Everyone knows of the health risks associated with smoking a pipe. But no one ever...
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Could Jesus Have Been Biologically Intersex?
Here are a few reasons why I think that Jesus may have been intersex. That...
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The Beautiful Gospel of WHEAT Distilled (with Danny Prada)
My friend Danny Prada, lead pastor of HeartWay Church, has distilled the points of WHEAT...
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What I’ve Learned from Dead Guys (Podcast Interview)
Ryan Cagle and I chat about C.S. Lewis, St. Athanasius, George MacDonald, and my journey...
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Transformative Love (The Beautiful Gospel of WHEAT)
Salvation—theosis—is the process of being transformed by God’s love into his image. We can’t “lose”...
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May 21, 2017
Human Solidarity (The Beautiful Gospel of WHEAT)
Jesus accomplished our salvation by uniting his divine nature with our human nature, and he...
May 09, 2017
The Beautiful Gospel of WHEAT (Not TULIP, DAISY, or ROSES)
It’s time for a new acronym—a counter-narrative to the Calvinistic gospel of TULIP, as well...
April 2017
April 14, 2017
What Did Jesus’ Death Accomplish? (Here’s the Best Explanation I’ve Heard)
It’s Good Friday, and the church is contemplating the death of Christ. Why did he...
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March 27, 2017
Why I Left, Why I Stayed by Tony Campolo & Bart Campolo (Book Review)
Tony Campolo is one of the most gracious and well-spoken voices that I know of...
December 2016
December 04, 2016
Jesus Showed Us! by Brad Jersak (Book Review)
A little over a year ago, I reviewed Brad Jersak’s A More Christlike God: A...
December 07, 2015
On the Athanasian Theology of Wesley’s Incarnation Hymn
It’s that time of year again. We’re once more officially allowed to sing about our...
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