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Why Does the Forerunner Not Become a Follower?
An Advent Conversation with Fleming Rutledge
Jesus Takes Away the Time John Gives Us
Even the Darkness is Not Dark to You
Is It Time for Me to Conceal My Jewish Identity?
An Advent Conversation with Fleming Rutledge
The Church is like a 12 Step Recovery Program
Even in the Eschaton, We Must Say Thanks
The Goats Were the Ones Counting Their Good Deeds
We Should Not Cover the Cross with Roses on Christ the King
Good Preachers Should Be Like Bad Kids
This is Not Darker than the Darkness We Have Known
Why Do We Think Jesus is Talking about Money?
Justification by Unbelief Alone
The Shape of Anglican Theology: Faith Seeking Wisdom
All Saints: The Courage to Make Others Suffer for Our Convictions
The Mystery of Grace in Our Most Fearful Hours
The Norm which Norms and is Not Normed
David’s Lord Always; David’s Son in Time
The Progressive Spiral of Eternity
The Hidden and the Clothed God
The Only Revolutionary has Death Behind Him
Preach As If Nothing Has Happened
L'Chaim in the Midst of Terrorism
"Death is a Big Part of What I Do"
Indigenous Theology for Indigenous People's Day
Bedlam and Heartbreak Abide in Bethlehem
On Becoming a Theologian of the Cross
The Parable of the Ridiculously Persistent Owner
Seeing What Is from What Will Be
In Christ Alone, Christians CAN be Christians
Don't Let Your Eyes Get Used to the Darkness
The Audacious Theology Behind Yom Kippur
Apolitical Christianity is Pure Delusion
The Gospel is Palliative Care for the Already Died
The God of the Bible is a Desperate Lover
A Womb More Spacious Than the Stars
Grace Happens: Or, Why I Abide in Ministry
The Road to Hell is Paved with Amnesia
Boot-stomping, @#$-kicking Jesus
Temporality is Not a Contrary to Eternity
The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism, and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West
Five Propositions on Day of Prayer for Creation
Vengeance: Love's Alleged Opposite
The Making and Unmaking of the World
"Nobody Ever Drifts toward the Gospel"
The Trinity at the Burning Bush
You Thought God was an Architect
What the Therefore is There For
Gospel Freedom According to Galatians
A Modest Proposal for Exorcism
In Hell There is Everything But Mercy
Seven Secrets of the Spirit-Filled Life
Jesus Displays the Grain of the Universe
Christ Calls Proclaimers Not Explainers
The Carpenter's Son is a Tailor
To Pray is Human, To Repent Divine
What Do Our Prayers Sound Like to God?
A Conversion with David Bentley Hart
Sneak Peak: A Quid Without Any Quo
Heaven IS a Place on Earth (But It's on the Move)
Sinners in the Hands of a __________ God
The Odd Creatures of the Sixth Day
He Will Have Us, If Only We Don't Get in the Way
That Time I Interviewed a Former Dominatrix
Is the Crucifixion a Penultimate Good?
Grace: Mission with an Open Hand
What the Philosophers Do Not Know
Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview
There are Two Gods on the Way to Moriah
We Don't Live in Egypt Anymore
What's Theology Got to Do with It?
Hagar, Ishmael, and the Trinity
All Things Happen by God’s Will
Because He Lives, We Can Describe Tomorrow
All Must be Saved Because We are Who We Love
The Good News of Predestination
The Stars are the Light of the World
The Moral Claim in the Triune Name
How Do You Identify False Prophets?
In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit- Mother of us all
The Good News of Pentecost is the Gospel Itself
At Pentecost, the Spirit Unites the Head with his Body
Why Does the Holy Spirit Descend on Shavuot?
Everything is Going to be Okay
Q: How Should We Speak about God?
Forgiveness is Too Weak a Word
The Present-Tense of the Gospel
Your Absolution Comes from the Only Still Point in the Cosmos
The Areopagus is Not Everywhere
Believers in Jesus should be the last people to board Flight 93’s
What's Theology Got to Do with It?
Grace Creates Impossible Possibilities
If Jesus is Risen, Where is His Body?
What is Said When Jesus is Said to be "Risen"
Can one be a Christian and believe that all will be saved?
Is this how to be an antiracist?
King of Kings Not Secretary of After Life Affairs
The Church is an Event within an Event
What Exactly is Christ's Risen Body?
Q: Does Belief in God the Creator Require Rejecting Science?
Risen with Nary a Word of Condemnation
The Expected is as Yet Inconceivable
That All Sad Things will be Made Untrue
The Mercy of God Can Never Now be a Theory Nor Even a Hope
Because He Died, I Can Face Tomorrow
There is No Deeper Magic at Work
The Crucifixion Puts Jesus’s Life and Teaching to the Test
He Did Not Shout "Do NOT Crucify Him!"
To Unmask Satan’s Temptations Christ Must be Tempted By Them
Judas: Icon of the Merciful Depths of the Crucified Love of the God Who is Human
Psalm 22, Jesus's Cry of Forsakenness, and the Triune Life
“For those who want to save their life will waste it..."
"Work with your salvation in fear and trembling" is the better way to hear it
Q: What is the best way to demonstrate belief's credibility?
America's Cut and Paste Tragedy
Covering the Cross with Roses (or Palm Leaves)
The Fall Takes Place Not in Eden But at Mt. Sinai
Hitmen and Midwives: Talking Preaching with Preachers
The Church is not the Jesus Memorial Society
Q: Is Belief in God Credible? A: Yes.
Only Death Makes Possible an Economy of Scarcity
God’s Office is at the End of Your Rope
Hitmen and Midwives: Talking Preaching with Preachers
Face to Face with God: Christ as Priest and Mediator
Sigmund Freud was Right, Sheep are Lame
Q: What do we mean by calling God “Creator?”
A Covert, Undercover Christian is an Oxymoron
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics for Everyone
How Pastors Practice Priesthood
Without a Loquacious Lord, You've No Basis to Believe God Loves You
Jesus's Whole Point to Nicodemus:
"You People" is a Warning, You People
The International League of the Guilty
The Devil in the Desert Speaks the Gospel Truth
Peter's Right (on the Mountaintop)