"Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him...

This coming Thursday (7/9/2020) I will give a short talk at Eighth Day Institute's inimitable Hall of Men. In this talk I'll be...

To my fellow (white) conservatives: By now you probably know the name Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old black man mercilessly killed in...

I am absolutely convinced that if we want to better understand the church and the theology of the first-century (the so-called New...

I've been reading the Bible seriously for about 12-15 years. I've been reading about the Bible roughly the same amount of time (there's a...

Today is Maundy Thursday, the start (for the West) of the Paschal Triduum. Like many Christians, music is for me a welcome companion...

Recently, I read what is sure to be a crucial essay by David Brooks in The Atlantic on the rise and fall of the nuclear family in...

The Church Calendar gives us a curriculum for discipleship. Through it Christians learn to inhabit the story of Scripture and live as...

Matthew 27: 56-66 Christians are the only people on earth who believe that death is a sign of victory. No other person would dare to make...

I'm fortunate to go to a church that values good theological reflection. For Holy Week and Easter, my pastor commissioned a series of...

I The disconcerting arrival of COVID-19 has provoked a number of theological questions. Perhaps the most interesting and important...

What is the point of Israel? After creation, Adam and Eve, and the 'Fall' -- why does it take such a long time to get to Jesus, the main...

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the annual Symposium put on by the Eighth Day Institute. The title of this year's...

Last week I wrote a post titled, 'Theology Matters,' where I tried to make the case that theology should matter for pastors -- especially...

Theology matters. I was reminded of this fact recently after I heard a prominent worship pastor make a disturbing statement. Ostensibly...

As 2018 comes to a precipitous close, I thought would add my voice to the growing chorus of others who've provided lists of their...

Near the end of his instructive book, Karl Barth On the Christian Life: The Practical Knowledge of God, Barth scholar and theologian...

Today marks the fourth day of Christmas, a day commemorated in the western Church as Holy Innocents. The day of Holy Innocents remembers...