Archive - Tamed Cynic

Cancer is NOT Funny

If it’s the case that the true God is persuadable, then I’d be remiss not to ask you to pray.

Dec 28, 2024 •

When Pope Francis Gave Me Jesus

Everyone else has a take; here’s mine

Apr 23 •

“Our expressed opinion is an essential pole of the process of God’s decision-making”

Prayer as Participation in Providence

Aug 31, 2024 •

Hell for some would be Hell for all.

Hell would require of Heaven an eternal lobotomy

Aug 7, 2024 •

Some ground rules for thinking about Satan and his minions.

Mar 7 •

Christ's Rabble

It much, much easier to be a Democrat or a Republican than to be a Christian.

Feb 20 •

What is Theology?

Deconstructing Deconstruction

Oct 23, 2023 •

“Conventional Christianity is the never-living faith of those who never lived it in the first place.”

The lives of the saints are the only defense Christ has chosen to make in this age.

Oct 26, 2024 •

The Problem with Salvation as Process

All is lost if our speech about Christ is legal in its logic

Jun 19, 2024 •

Just This Offering

When God speaks through the prophets about sacrifice he treats it as the expression of a human need he tolerates rather than as anything he desires.

Mar 25 •

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Fleming Rutledge

We Should Not Give to Our Politics the Passion They Seek

"Christians should resist the absolute claims of the State, ideological leaders, and political parties by depriving them of their pathos."

Jan 24 •

The World was Made for the Circumcision of Mary's Boy

On the oddness of the God who cuts a covenant

Jan 1 •

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