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Is God Concerned With Self-Awareness

The other day I was reading through Genesis 3 and something stood out to me. Genesis 3 opens with the introduction of a new character: the Serpent. Adam and Eve are living in the garden, naked and unaware. The Serpent …
Postcolonial Reconfigurations: Considering the Minority Perspective

I have been slowly and quite laboriously sifting through R. S. Sugirtharajah's work "Postcolonial Reconfigurations" on and off for the past few months. Despite it's small size, the book has proved a challenge for me both…
A Call for Healthy Sexuality or A Desperate Cry for Attention: churches encourage sex…and a lo

Ed Young and the Fellowship Church are the latest to promote more sex. Earlier this year, Relevant Church of Tampa Florida issued a “30-Day Sex Challenge.” Married couples were encouraged for have sex everyday and non-m…
Ehrman on Suffering

Outspoken agnostic and professor of Religious Studies at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Bart Ehrman recently wrote one the subject of suffering in "God's Problems and Human Solutions" and has been lecturing on …
Balancing Honor and Subversiveness: living post election

I believe there is an intrinsic subversiveness in Jesus’ message of the Kingdom. The New Testament evangelist did not shy away from ascribing to Jesus terms reserved for the Emperor himself. King of the Jews. Ruler. Savi…
Framing Jesus

Where does our understanding of Jesus (his life and mission) come from?The answers to this question (if we were somehow able to draw out anhonest answer from within ourselves) would probably be as varied as thenumb…
The Timley Death of Words: the failure of language to capture the life of a movement

On September 1, Andrew Jones (aka Tall Skinny Kiwi) hosted a poll in which 60.8% of respondents said it was time to dump the term “emergent.” A month or so back I read a post by Dan Kimballabout the changing definition…
Inspired? Taking a look at the evangelical theology of inspiration and deciding if Luke-Acts makes t

Inspirationof Scripture. The very thought of it brings the most impassioneddebates to the forefront. This issue has divided churches, gottenprofessors fired and incited riots (okay, I don’t know …