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Oprah Isn't Bringing You a Casserole

Q: Does the One-Way Love of God Necessarily Entail Predestination? A: Sorry, yes

You May Be Right

Q: Does God Suffer? A: Yes.

"Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem because if it's only a Jewish problem, it has no solution"

We’re all Eunuchs

There is No God Without You

Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism

A Sheep Without Any Verbs

An Aural Army

There is Salvation in No One Else

Easter's Afterwards

Learning the Creed with Karl Barth

Scripture's Scarlet Thread

Is a Divine Jesus a Pretend Jew?

Christians Do Not Sin

The Resurrection is Not a Solution to the Problem of Death

An Odd Body Indeed

The Power of Words

At Once Justified and a Doubter

Easter Faith is All About the Adverb

Where Did the Risen Jesus's Body God?

God Shows Up Under the Sign of his Opposite

The Gospel According to Judas

What Was Jesus Doing When He Was Dead?

In Jesus's Death, the Judas in Judas Died

Good Friday Forever Settles God's Identity

Do Not Keep Me Near the Cross

Remembering the Future

The Tomb is Not Empty; It's Full

The Father's Faithfulness to his Faithful Son

The Binding of Jesus

There is a Certain People

Meeting One Another at a Shared Text

The Devil is Too Laughable to be Taken Seriously

The Zone of Interest

What is the Gospel Meant to Do to Its Hearers?

Fear and Shamelessness

He Came Preaching the Pardon of God

A New Beatitude

Create in Me

The Bible Does Miriam Bad

9.5 Theses on Preaching

The Mess is Hers

Seriously, God is Good

The Promise at the Parting of the Waters

Longing for Auschwitz

The Sacrament of Imprisonment

Squeamish about the Bible’s Blood Speak?

Unpacking the Bible Belt Baggage of "You Must be Born Again"

Father Abraham was an Immigrant

God’s Grace in Christ isn’t Cheap

Your Future is Christ’s to Give One Another

Starting with God

Learning the Creed with Karl Barth

What Would Jesus SAY?

There is No Reward for Your Virtue

The End of Civility: Christ and Prophetic Division

Why is Jesus So PO'd?

The Justification of God

The Return of the Big Lie: Anti-Semitism is Winning

Justification is the Reverse of Predestination

Puzzle Pieces

How Does Faith Make Us Righteous?

Listen Again to the Song at the Cross

Christ’s Sinnerhood

Tragically Engaged

Just This Offering

The Uncreated Light of God has been Seen

Be Reconciled

If the Devil Won the Test, the World Would Not Be

What If Jesus HAD Made Bread from Stones?

Lenten Study with Rabbi Joseph Edelheit

Death is Not Natural

Indiscrete Zeal

The Glory of God Versus the Adversary

Choosing Rebirth Over Revenge

The Way Down the Mount of Transfiguration is Almost Always a Descent into Moralism

"Until" is an Amazing Word

Inspired Stumbling Blocks

Learning the Creed with Karl Barth

Nine Exhortations for Preachers

Pray with Your Feet

The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

Live with Fleming Rutledge

God Gives a Feck

A Bird With Many Branches

Learning the Creed with Karl Barth

The Darth Vader of the Hebrew Bible

Handling Hashem with Care

Christology Sunday By Sunday

As If He Had Written Them

“The Unseen But Ever-Present God”

St. Augustine's Theology of Preaching

The Problem with a Living, Loquacious God

Deus Dixit

I Know Jesus is Risen Because I've Met Him

What is Worthy of Your Finitude?

"Fishers of Men" is Better Than "Fish for People"

The Season of Theophany

“Something Impossible for Unaided Humanity”

The Boy Who Lived

The Dangerous Lure of Hot Takes

The LORD Speaks by No Other Word But Jesus

Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration

Living the (Correct) Questions

Epiphany: The Season of Glory

Because of the Bicycles

God’s Balm from Gilead

Missing By Nine Miles

Top Theology Books 2023, Radio Sermon, & Fleming Rutledge Study

Our Lady of the Hostages

The Star was their Golden Calf

On the Incarnation