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 •

“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 •

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 •

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

On the oddness of the God who cuts a covenant

Jan 1 •

God Doesn’t Give a Damn

Sin distorts how we view God, as an Almighty Auditor rather than a Dad on the front porch

Mar 2, 2022 •

Boot-stomping, @#$-kicking Jesus

On the cross, Jesus throws the dragon down

Sep 10, 2023 •

Abstinence: 99.99999% Effective

If Mary is the first disciple, Joseph is the first skeptic

Dec 20, 2023 •

All Saints: The Courage to Make Others Suffer for Our Convictions

The Gospel Requires Exemplification

Nov 2, 2023 •

Hell Yes, I Believe in Hell

Just not in its eternity

Aug 8, 2024 •

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