"The LORD will mediate between nations and will settle international...
“The LORD will mediate between nations and will settle international disputes. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against...
View Article"How does a denial, a doubt, of their historicity lead logically to a similar...
“How does a denial, a doubt, of their historicity lead logically to a similar denial of New Testament miracles? Supposing that sound critical reading revealed different kinds of narrative in the Bible,...
View ArticleSanhedrin | George Fox If you’re into blistering fast and...
Sanhedrin | George Fox If you’re into blistering fast and depressingly heavy hardcore music, check out my good friend’s band Sanhedrin. They just put out their first ep, “Pro Human. Pro Life.” It...
View Article"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth...
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of...
View Article"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed...
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry...
View Article"How can we have enough freedom to imagine and articulate a real historical...
“How can we have enough freedom to imagine and articulate a real historical newness in our situation? That is not to ask, as Israel’s prophet’s ever asked, if this freedom is realistic or politically...
View Article"The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a...
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture…That genuine alternative,...
View Article"I’m not suggesting that Christians should be strict pacifists. What I am...
“I’m not suggesting that Christians should be strict pacifists. What I am suggesting is that Christians should be vociferously anti-war and regularly protesting war. That seems to be what the faith...
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My friend took the initiative to record Walter...
My friend took the initiative to record Walter Brueggemann’s lecture on Psalm 104 as a paradigmatic narrative for preaching creation. I have taken the initiative to upload it to the internet for you to...
View Article"The utterance of truth is grossly unwelcome among us. The truth of the...
““The utterance of truth is grossly unwelcome among us. The truth of the scandal of the cross is a truth none of us welcome. And the truth that our socio-economic, military system has failed…I don’t...
View Articlethings to be thankful for: Ethos Church
This is a season of thanksliving and I want to spend the next few weeks focusing on that which I am thankful for - big and small. For starters, I am thankful for the church. Specifically, Ethos Church....
View ArticleIn Due Time - Back to Basics Just getting pumped for being in...
In Due Time - Back to Basics Just getting pumped for being in History and Theology of the Stone-Campbell Movement for nine hours today. Back to the basics. “Only ‘Christians’ but not the only...
View ArticleConfessions of a First Semester Theology Student:
Sects in the church. Sex in the church. There is a big difference. Conveyed orally you may not be able to distinguish it and it can change the whole dynamic of the conversation.
View Article"the restored still need restoring and the renewed still need renewing."
“the restored still need restoring and the renewed still need renewing.”
View Article"One of the reasons we’re so unlike Jesus is because we work so hard to...
“One of the reasons we’re so unlike Jesus is because we work so hard to maintain our reputations at the expense of the people who need us most.” - Ethos Church, 11.13.11
View Article"We can always come up with “others” that aren’t in the story. We can make...
“We can always come up with “others” that aren’t in the story. We can make the Samaritan story work for a lot of people…but then there’s “the homosexuals.” Except still, in our heart of hearts we know...
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“slapping a cross on it” is a sad reality of...
“slapping a cross on it” is a sad reality of “Christian” art. And then there’s people like Dustin Kensrue or Michael Gungor. The latter recently voiced his frustrations with this phenomenon and it’s...
View Article"For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be...
“For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the...
View ArticleConfessions of a First Semester Theology Student:
if you know who The ButterCream Gang is, our childhoods were eerily similar.
View ArticleLipscomb University: The Most Interesting Faculty in the...
Lipscomb University: The Most Interesting Faculty in the World Dos Equis ad spoof made for our undergrad’s Bible Department. Hilarious. “I don’t always read the Bible. But when I do, I prefer the...
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