To start, we'd like to apologize for taking a while to get to the third installment of this series. As you can imagine, the last weeks of the semester are very ...
In my experience, most Christians tend to read the book of Proverbs in fairly disconnected fashion. Individual nuggets of wise advice are isolated not only fro...
This week, my Bible study and I looked at thankfulness in the Bible. Looking at the prayers of faithful people in the Scriptures isn’t a bad way of teaching you...
One of the hardest lessons I've had to learn from Christianity is humility. Humbly accepting when you're wrong. Humbly standing firm when you're right. Humbly l...
Peter Enns has written an essay on "The Benefit of Doubt" which is, I think, necessary for many to ponder:
"There is a benefit of doubt. Let me put that more s...
For Jordan Monge
For some time now I have wanted to do a second theological analysis of a piece of popular music; the religious thought of Top 40 musicians i...
I have written fairly often about Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the past (and plan to continue doing so), as both his life and his writings stand out to me as enormous...
It’s not quite Advent yet, but a friend of mine saw Christmas lights being put up the other day, so I suppose that it’s not entirely out of place for me to disc...
To review, here’s the question posed in part I:
C. Marshall: Many Christians invoke their direct experience of Christ as their primary reason for belief in th...
"Vanity of vanities--all is vanity!" cries Qoheleth (or "the preacher") in what is perhaps the most mysterious and eerily modern book in the Old Testament canon...
