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July 2015

July 22, 2015
Biola's online journal, The Table, recently published an excellent piece by New Testament scholar Jeannine...
July 21, 2015
Yesterday, two Christian colleges, Eastern Mennonite University and Goshen College, made a big announcement: They...
July 21, 2015
Trump created quite a stir when he declared that John McCain is not a war...
July 17, 2015
While working my way through Ernest Becker's splendid book, The Structure of Evil, I came upon...
July 16, 2015
This is the sixth post of a series I will be writing over the next...
July 15, 2015
Wise words from David Tracy's Plurality and Ambiguity, regarding the situation of plurality and the challenge of...
July 14, 2015
Julie Rodgers, a gay Christian celebrated by evangelicals for her commitment to celibacy, recently announced...
July 13, 2015
James McGrath, over at Exploring Our Matrix, has a good reflection on the problem of...
July 09, 2015
I have written before about my mother, who is in the final stages of the...
July 07, 2015
In the days since I "came out" as an inclusive, progressive, and post-Evangelical  Christian, I...
July 06, 2015
This is the fifth post of a series I will be writing over the next...
July 02, 2015
"Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and...

June 2015

June 30, 2015
Today, June 29, we will all be gifted an extra second. This "leap second" functions...
June 30, 2015
It's a dangerous time to be a progressive thinker in an Evangelical institution these days....
June 29, 2015
Are Evangelicals going to try to break up families now? Now that gays and lesbians...
June 26, 2015
What a tremendous eulogy President Obama delivered today for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney. He started...
June 26, 2015
So while everybody else is writing high-minded reflections about the Supreme Court decision to legalize...
June 24, 2015
You Evangelicals and post-evangelicals out there will be well-familiar with the "Billy Graham Rule." For...
June 24, 2015
When Bryan Stevenson talks about race issues and public policy, you should listen. Bryan is...
June 23, 2015
I love and hate gathering my book lists for upcoming courses.   One the one...
June 18, 2015
I've been teaching a series on the Thessalonian letters at my church; last night we...
June 17, 2015
  "Everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." I thought about that...
June 15, 2015
I've never heard Matthew 15:21-28 preached the way it should be preached. This is the...
June 15, 2015
By now, everyone has heard the story of Rachel Dolezal. I won't repeat it in...
June 11, 2015
Yesterday, I led a Bible study at my church on 1 Thessalonians 4. In this...
June 10, 2015
Recently David Neff, former editor of Christianity Today, publicly announced his support of and agreement...
June 09, 2015
This is the fourth post of a series I will be writing over the next...
June 08, 2015
I was raised in a conservative Evangelical church.  Southern Baptist style. We watched a lot...
June 08, 2015
The following is an excerpt from Andrew Sung Park's book, Triune Atonement. The section is...
June 05, 2015
I'm working on a post on the atonement and the gospel (for the "Leaving Evangelicalism"...
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