There is a lot of talk about deconstruction of faith. There is a growing movement among notably younger evangelicals in North America who are disenchanted with their faith. The questions...
Radical Sacramentality: The Promise Of A Public Radical Theology
In this article, I argue that a radical public theology that sheds its religious garment in a kenotic exocentric movement toward the world functions as a radical sacrament that is...
The Publicness of Christian Discourse As Divine Movement
In this article, I will outline a way how Christianity might regain a public voice and function. While the proposed changes are very drastic, they are deeply rooted in the...
Christianity and Atheism: The Necessary Publicness Of Faith
For Christianity to be relevant again it needs to move beyond the faith and atheism debate. Here's why.
On Faith, Atheism, and Beyond
I always thought atheism was the last and final barrier that I would not cross or that, when cross, would seal me as a non-Christian. And then I realized there...
What is Faith? Faith As Commitment To Otherness
Faith has become an exclusively religious word. If we want to salvage the Christian faith for a secular age we will need to unpack and reimagine the meaning of the...
Who Is Jesus Christ For Us Today?
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever, writes the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews (He. 13:8, NIV). What do we make of such a declaration...
Enter Into Your Whiteness: Racism 101 For White People
It is often said that white people cannot understand the racism black people have to endure. The experience of racist discrimination is the unique possession of those who undergo it....
Why I Dropped the Label of Evangelical and Why You Should Too
On January 17, Ron Sider, an evangelical theologian famous for his insistence that rich Christians make work of addressing poverty, posted on a piece on his blog titled “STILL EVANGELICAL...
Emotional and Spiritual Abuse in the Church (I): the Divine Authority Syndrome
Emotional and spiritual abuse in the church often results from wrong ideas about how Divine Authority functions within the faith community. It is often wielded as a tool to suppress,...
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 see, i.e. understand, what we can place in an interpretative structure of...
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 makes the content of the Christian faith concrete and relevant for our...
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 voor het land Israël. We willen de Islam ondersteunen.” Aan het woord...
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 the argument. I set out to argue that Bonhoeffer’s “Act and Being”...
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, it sounds more like one of my colleagues and future theological collaborators....