Before you freak out and accuse me of heresy, hear me out. I am not talking about Hell in terms you probably think I am. I am not articulating my…
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I greatly enjoyed Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps us from Loving Like Jesus. Jared Byas, the co-host of the popular podcast The Bible for Normal People, wrote this…
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In The Great Stream: Imagining Churches of Christ in the Christian Tradition is a zenith in writings about the Churches of Christ (COC). Leonard Allen, dean of the college of…
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head and Calling Her Husband “Master” is a provocative and fun book that pushes…
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Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for Christians by Lee Camp is not for the faint of heart. Camp’s argument is provocative and he is not prone to pull any punches.…
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I am a fan of Sarah Barton’s Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership. In the book she references several fragments of prayers from Ted Loder’s Guerrillas of Grace. Because I am such…
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Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?: The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit is a recommendation from me. The book is readable, succinct, and persuasive. The…
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The Church is closely related to the Kingdom and to the Mission of God (Missio Dei), but there are potential misunderstandings. This article is an article for clarification of terms…
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There are few concepts more central to the preaching of Jesus than the Kingdom of God. Sadly, however, this concept does not receive an equal amount of attention from Jesus’s…
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The earliest Christians wrestled with their articulation of the Trinity. The monotheism that the early followers of Jesus inherited from Judaism prohibited them from concluding that Jesus was one god…
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