AUDIO: My interview on Ordinary Folk podcast
Posted onI was recently interviewed on the Ordinary Folk podcast. We talked about theology, politics, the relationship between church and state, and superheroes. Click the image […]
Category: Theology
PODCAST: The Transcendence Argument – The Self-Disclosure of the God of Israel
Posted onPiggybacking on the ideas of Yehezkel Kaufmann and John Oswalt, this argument builds on the uniqueness of the ancient Israelite claims about the divine to […]
How Shall We Then Vote?
Posted onThere seem to be two basic attitudes in the church in regard to the question of how Christians should vote. The first is that politics […]
Michael Sattler: Radical Christian
Posted onThough Protestants have in more recent years come around to the principle of separation of church and state, this was not so in the beginning. […]
Can You Lose Your Salvation?
Posted onIt is popular within evangelicalism today to think of salvation in terms of a “once saved, always saved” framework. However, the author of the biblical […]
Why Jesus Is Better Than the Old Covenant
Posted onAt this point in history Christian evangelism to the Jewish people is something of a minefield. Because Christian-identifying gentiles have so often oppressed Jews, any […]
The Gospel According to Batman V Superman
Posted onFresh from the theater after having seen Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, I have been reflecting upon one particularly fascinating theme within it. In […]
The Medium is the Massage: on the Temptation to Replace People with Technology
Posted onSherry Turkle is distraught. The more this MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology looks at the world around her, the more […]
I looked, and behold! a spray tan horse (or, how the loss of literacy could spell the end for western civilization)
Posted onWhen Kim Kardashian tweeted, “Today marks the 100 year anniversary of Armenian Genocide!” as if she were giving a birth announcement, it predictably elicited some […]
Christian Involvement in Politics Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
Posted onWhen Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380 (after being granted the status of an approved religion by Emperor Constantine […]