A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.
Biblical eschatology fundamentally challenges the "official" scientific idea that the universe will end in a violent heat death, and instead that the cosmos will be set free from its decadence. It calls us to consider the sobering similarities betwee...
The highest view of the Scriptures is not the one that seeks to make an idol of the Bible (biblicism), but the one that allows the biblical text to exalt Christ as the living Word over all creation. The Word became flesh, not ink.
There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.
Jesus' willingness to accommodate Thomas' unbelief is a reminder that God can handle our doubt. And that the rationalist doesn't need to see, touch, or run a lab test in order to believe in the resurrected Christ. Jesus told him, “You believe becau...
There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.
Jesus sets the boundaries of God's will. If it doesn't look like Christ, then it's outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us.
Saying no to flag worship dethrones the American Jesus and it exposes our cultural Christianity.
