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Tag Archives: Jesus
The Snip, The Cough, and The Penguin: A Short Story About a Vasectomy and Other Things
A syringe was mentioned, numbing was discussed, the site of injection was determined, and a cold grasp felt.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses.
The Hate You Teach: John MacArthur
It doesn’t make sense to me now but it sure as hell did back then.
The Shadow of the Cross
The shadow of the cross has not disappeared. It echoes through eternity.
The Billy Graham Rule and Its Inadvertent Degradation of Women
“From that day on, I did not travel, meet or eat alone with a woman other than my wife.”
The Slaughterhouse of God
The Nazis were not the first to burn children. God’s people did so long before.
The Dangers of a Heaven Obsessed Christian Mind
What a beautiful hope. A dream, almost, to live in a place where suffering no longer exists. We become immortal hedonists. At least that’s what some Christians make it sound like.
Compassion for the Sojourner
“Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”
Curse God and Die
God Is Not Afraid of Your Pain
Theories of Atonement
Did Jesus pay Satan a hefty ransom for humanity’s redemption?
About Last Sunday: Message Notes and Other Things
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Traits of Abusive Leaders
We’re here to restore people to fellowship, not power, remember that.
1826 Days in Canada: A Short Story.
Welp, that’s five years in Canada for us. Let’s see what happens in the next five!
Why God’s Justice is Good News
Divine Justice is equally retributive and reparative.
The Alien and the Earth
What am I to you, World, but a passing stranger?
Whole Bodies. Halved Souls.
How plagued we are by this broken duality.
One Year of Blogging in the Books!
I launched this blog one year ago today.
Love Your Neighbor: Afghanistan
Love your neighbor.
Of Christians, Pandemics, and Pro-Life Hypocrisy
Bear one another’s burdens.
When and where is racism ever acceptable?
Where can a racist person live out their racist sentiments without the fear of public reprisal and invective?
Christ in Alabama by Langston Hughes
Christ is a nigger.
100th Blog Post!
I dedicate my one-hundredth blog post to my lovely wife.
My Struggle with Historical Presentism
And this is where I run into this new conundrum of historical presentism.
The Ever Preaching Heart: The Life and Legacy of Job
How can we preach a message we have not believed?
Faith Built On Fear: An Observation of a Christian Mind Fueled by Fear
We become enslaved by the doing of things for God to receive things from God. Christ has delivered us from these ascetic tendencies because they serve no purpose.
My 2021 List of Non-Fiction Books
My reading list for 2021 is daunting and hopeless but that’s the fate of anyone who dares to read and read at length about history.
Short Post: Struggling With Numbness and Rage
I’m stuck in between numbness and rage in the face of continual abuse of power, denial of trauma and racism, denial of the legacy of racism and trauma, denial of abuse all around.
The Case Against the Internet Jesus Part 2 – “Historical” Jesus
Historical Jesus?
The Case Against the Internet Jesus: Part 1 – “Colonizer” Jesus
Colonizer Jesus?