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2025-01-14

Textual Legalism versus Values Trajectory in applying Biblical Commands

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The selective and often hypocritical application of biblical law is a persistent feature in modern discourse. It's a pattern where scrip...
2024-10-31

Evil and things that go Bump in the Night

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A Sermon for Halloween based on Ephesians 6.10-18 [10] Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. [11] Put on the full armor of God, so ...
2024-08-19

The Incarnation and divine embodiments

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The Truth of the unique top-down Kenosis of God who becomes incarnate in the person of Jesus of Nazareth does not need to be in conflict wit...
2024-06-18

World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts

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If you are a Religious Practitioner, Spiritual Person, Student of Theology, or just love understanding how people make sense of the world an...
2024-06-14

Metric Maladies: The Disease of elevating Quantity over Quality

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As Jerry Z. Muller notes in his book " The Tyranny of Metrics ", we live in an age of " metric fixation ". We use quanti...
2024-06-03

The Entangled Reality of Spirit and Water Baptism

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Ever since I began following Jesus in my late teens, I have read about the debate over the nature, efficacy, and relationship between Spirit...
2024-03-18

Acts and Afterlife, Hope and Gospel

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Recently a friend online posted this quote: "In all of the evangelistic sermons in the Book of Acts, none of them makes an appeal to af...
2024-03-17

You are a Theophany

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Every single person is a theophany. May we all see God’s image in each and every person God puts in our path, and welcome them as we would w...
2024-03-09

Wittgenstein and Hope beyond hope

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Recently a friend of mine posted a neat quote by Wittgenstein: One can imagine an animal angry, fearful, sad, joyful, startled. But hopeful?...
2024-02-04

Provocation on Revisionists, Traditionalists, and Jesus

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Revisionists often proclaim Jesus as a radical prophet of the justice of God who overturns Empire, while denying or ignoring Jesus as the In...
2023-12-02

The Panentheism of Creation in Christ

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Recently a friend online asked me a great question: "Can you tell me why you think (if you do) the creature / Creator distinction is es...
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2023-11-20

Constantine and the Complicated Canon of Scripture

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Recently I read a brief apologetics essay that sought to debunk the myth that Emperor Constantine created the Bible at the Council of Nicea...
2023-11-19

Wisdom after Bulgakov: A Trinitarian Sophiology

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I recently had an extended discussion with a couple of friends about the nature of Divine Wisdom, which is called Sophia (in Greek) and Hokh...
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...
2023-11-09

Wrestling with God across Scripture and Life

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Do you feel like you are wrestling with God through the trials and tribulations of life? You are not alone.  Following God and being guided ...
2023-11-07

Rejecting the Reconquista for Christ's Mission of Inclusion

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Earlier this week I found the Reconquista movement , with its Episcopal version , which details a plan to "re-conquer" historic de...
2023-10-31

All is Center: CS Lewis’ vision of the Great Dance

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Frequently I have discussions with people who want to de-center humanity from the most important place in the universe, in order to help us ...
2023-10-15

The Complexity of Love's Simplicity

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After posting my last essay , Fr. Kimel has noted that David Bentley Hart affirms Divine Simplicity in many places and "divine simplici...
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Divine Simplicity is simply too simple

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Recently the amazing Fr. Aidan Kimel has written an article on how the " free will theodicy " is incompatible with Thomas Aquinas...
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2023-09-08

The Particular Exclusiveness of Generic Deism

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As a chaplain, there is a view I often run across among non-religious, college-educated folks in postmodern western culture that Christianit...