Emotional and spiritual abuse in the church often results from wrong ideas about how Divine Authority functions within...
Faith Deconstruction: What It Is and How It Works
Deconstruction starts with the realization that all of reality is constructed. This is so because we can only...
Religious Trauma, Fundamentalism, Spiritual Abuse, Atheism, Bonhoeffer, Radical Theology and Other Topics I Write About
I address a number of topics on this website. My main concern is to be a theologian who...
Christenen voor Islam: een exclusief interview met de nieuwe voorzitter
“Christenen voor Islam wil hetzelfde doen voor de Islam wat de organisatie Christenen voor Israël al jaren doet...
Faith In Secular Times: How to Repent of God in Order to Follow Christ
I sometimes bend over backward to find ways in which faith can still be relevant in our secular...
Christelijk geloof en seculariteit: Om Christus te volgen moet je je van god bekeren.
Ik breek me soms het hoofd over hoe het geloof nog relevant kan zijn in onze seculaire post-christelijke...
Capitalism as Divine Necessity: Toward A Political Theology of the Cross
I’ve been looking for ways to describe the current politico-economic order of Western capitalism in religious terms. The...
The Hollywood Evangelicalism of Pratt and Bieber: Same Old, Same Old.
A reasonably friendly article appeared on Vox: The rise of the star-studded, Instagram-friendly evangelical church: Chris Pratt, Justin...
“I Love Jesus But Not the Church” Means You’re On To Something
An article appeared a few days ago in the evangelical section of Patheos that really irked me. It...
The Theology of Bonhoeffer As a Theology of the Cross
In anticipation of the publication of my dissertation this summer, here is a brief, albeit nerdy, summary of...
De Nashville Verklaring als Geestelijke Big Mac
Wie de naam Nashville hoort, denkt meteen aan country muziek. Voor Amerikaanse evangelicals is er sinds kort ook...
Het Einde op Bond Street. Een Verhaal.
Markus 1:14; Markus 13 “Bekeert u en bergt u; het koninkrijk der goden komt en wie zal het...
Immanuel and the Immigrants: Thoughts on the Absence of God in Western Society
Anyone who’s been reading my recent musings on theology must have noticed how I struggle creatively with the...
OMG! I’m an Atheist Who Follows Christ.
The above line is not me talking. It could have been, but I decided to not become an atheist. No,...
Martyrs, Madmen, and Marauders: Six Ways Christian Missions Needs to Change
There has been much talk about missions lately in the wake of the death of a young missionary,...
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