All Posts By
We are not called to be certain so that our side wins denominational debates and culture wars. We are not called to be certain so
It’s no longer enough to simply say, “I’m a Christian.” We feel compelled to attach more labels: conservative/progressive, Calvinist/Arminian, premillennial/amillennial,
Some of my Christian friends find a parallel between Cyrus and President Trump. Just as God used Cyrus, a pagan ruler, so God is using
It’s wise to avoid trying to figure out whether we are better or worse now. It’s better simply to say that along with all the
In conversing with resistant conservative Christians, it probably won’t work to start with details about polar icecaps, the fate of some endangered salamander, or a
Still, when I compare Old and New Testament lamenting, I can’t shake the sense that the coming of Jesus changed the role of lament for
An old proverb says, “When the map and the terrain differ, the terrain is always right.”
I preached on LGBTQ issues four times in forty years, once in each church I served. I tried to model how to talk about these
You and I both know it’s not good to call Jesus “Lord, Lord” if we don’t do what he says .
