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2025-09-27

TIKKUN OLAM: Sharing in God's Mission to Heal the World

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2023-11-14

Theses on Protecting the Innocent in Wartime

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The following is my attempt to clarify where I stand in this current moment in a way that avoids using political labels, for when someone in...
2020-08-31

Deuteronomy Five Seventeen

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A didactic poem
2020-08-06

Sam Harris’ Monstrous Moral Landscape

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I recently picked up Michael Brooks’ book about the “Intellectual Dark Web” in which he critiques the views of several “renegade” intellect...
2020-05-30

A Litany for Protests

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Since I cannot make it to any of the vigils or protests this weekend that are seeking justice for George Floyd and other black men and women...
2020-02-17

Jesus’ formula for discerning Good from Evil

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Among the many things John’s Gospel teaches is a concise formula to discern Good from Evil. John records Jesus as saying: The thief com...
2019-12-17

Consistent Life Ethics and the Conundrum of Abortion

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Recently, someone asked me what the Christian view on abortion is, since they find themselves uncomfortable with both extreme "pro-c...
2017-10-03

On Socially Engineered Tragedies

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Another day, another mass shooting. Same event, different location. Sometimes more are dead, sometimes less. The plot is depressingly and...
2015-03-27

Texas: Just say "no" to thugs

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Today I wrote a short letter to my Texas State governor, senator and representative about the "Open Carry" legislation making i...
2012-12-19

On Elisha, Bears and Bullying

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In light of recent tragedies, I wanted to comment once again on the issue of violence in the Bible. On the whole, I tend to view Biblical...
2012-08-18

The Joker, Mass Murder, and Metanarratives

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Within hours after the Aurora shooting, people were predictably asking "Why?" Why would an intelligent young man dress up like...
2011-05-02

On Bin Laden's Death

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A Reading from 1st Timothy, chapter 2: 1 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for ev...
2010-05-12

Is Every Single Person a Child of God?

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An Essay Exploring the Universal Fatherhood of God in its Implications for our Mission as Followers of Jesus Christ. In the last few yea...
2007-11-19

Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out?

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Today, a friend named Jake facebooked me this question: ----------------------------- From Today's English Version Good News Bible: D...
2007-01-19

"Evangelical" has apparently been left behind to follow "Antichrist"

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2018 Note: After re-reading this post, I agree with the substance of it for the most part. But I do come off here as a bit of a condescendin...
2006-09-22

Just War or Pacifism? Rodrigo versus Gabriel

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This is a speech given in a "Just War versus Pacifism" debate at Perkins School of Theology in September of 2006. The starting poi...
2006-07-05

Should the name Evangelical be "left behind"?

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2020 UPDATE: I still agree with most of the values and ideals which underlie this 2005 "essay" (which is more of a rant). But I th...
2006-02-13

An Open Letter to the Republican National Committee

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2018 Note: There are several things about this blog I really do not agree with now. Notably, I have long since evolved to embrace marriage e...