A month or so ago, I finished reading Peter Rollins new book, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine, after being blown away by his earlier book, How (Not) to Speak of God. Rollins had billed it as being very controversial, but I didn’t particularly see why other than using terms like “a/theism” to […]
I was recently invited to speak to a Sunday School class at Faith Presbyterian Church about theological support for welcoming immigrants. It is adapted from my earlier response to the introduction of Alabama HB 56. Below is the text of my comments to the Sunday School class. Theological Support for Adopting a Welcoming Stance Toward […]
I recently read Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity … and Why It Matters by David Kinnaman, Gabe Lyons and Lloyd James. I was propelled to read it as I heard about a statistic at a workshop lead by Ron Martoia that 92% of 16-29 year old unchurched people see the church […]
I’ve been reading through Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. In Letter XLI, Seneca says: God is near you, is with you, is inside you. Jesus also speaks of this notion of God being inside of you on multiple occasions: The kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21b Jesus answered, ‘Is it not written in […]
I recently had a chance to be a part of putting together a theological and biblical critique of HB 56, which is a tough anti-immigration bill already passed into law by the Alabama legislature and signed by the governor. The opening pages of the bill list the intentions of the bill followed by a bunch […]
Apologetics is a a unique field that has the distinction of being the only “discipline” (that I can think of) that actually starts with the conclusion. Put more positively, Christian apologetics is a “reasoned” defense of the Christian faith. In actuality, I believe, most apologies are defenses only of particular strains of the Christian faith. […]
I’ve been thinking about the way different people are faithful (from the Christian tradition) and I can think of at least five modes of being faithful to God. Piety Service Social Justice Evangelism Orthodoxy All of these have some degree of importance in my mind. Yet I think it is the first mode that most […]