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§19.2~ Biblical Inerrancy = A Denial of Grace
There’s something fragile, foolhardy and yet frighteningly beautiful about the vantage point that ministry offers upon the faith of ordinary believers and their extra ordinary, in the pejorative sense,...
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The Bible is Not the Word of God
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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What’s Wrong with Reading the Bible Literally?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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The Bible is Not History
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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Let’s Reverse the Reformation and Get Bibles Out of the Home
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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How Do I Read the Bible?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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The Woman Caught in Adultery: If She Got Caught Again, Would Jesus Stone Her?
Question: If the woman caught in adultery got caught again, would Jesus this time say ‘stone her?’ The other day I posted a tongue-in-cheek, redacted version of John 8, the passage where the Pharisees...
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Do Christians Grasp God Better?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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§23.1~ Do We Need Praxis-Based Creeds and Heresies?
§23.1 If nothing else, Karl Barth provides a needful salve for the Christian blogosphere. The sheer breadth and length of Barth’s Dogmatics could fool you. Despite how much hot air Barth devotes to...
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Another Problem with the Quadrilateral
During Lent, as many of my professional Christian colleagues were forsaking sugar, shots, and selfies, I was instead taking on an additional discipleship discipline: Reading Karl Barth’s Dogmatics....
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Preaching Against the Powers
Fleming Rutledge, if you don’t know her, is the best damn preacher in the English language. It’s most appropriate that she should be guest who breaks the Crackers and Grape Juice glass ceiling. I’ve...
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Friday’s with Fleming: The Spirit Blows Where It Will
Here’s the second half of our most recent conversation with guest Fleming Rutledge, author of The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ. Follow @cmsvoteup
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Advice in the Trump Era: Preachers, Don’t Be Prophetic
With The Donald in the White House provoking moral outrage and righteous indignation in degrees that are both justified and knee-jerk partisan, I hear a lot of my clergy colleagues talking about how...
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Episode 95: Fridays with Fleming – The Beyonce of Anglicanism
It’s difficult for me to express how grateful (to God) I feel that the inter-webs and something called a podcast would be the means by which I have developed a friendship with Fleming Rutledge. Our...
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Downloads vs. the Duty to Glorify God
He pulled his earbuds out. He was working out on the crotch machine. You know the piece of equipment. The one where you exercise your thighs by pushing in and out like the levers of a pinball machine;...
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