What To Do When God is Unfaithful We often talk about human unfaithfulness. Novels become bestsellers partly to the extent their plots involve the right amounts of betrayal, infidelity, and...
I Believe in Predestination But God Has Nothing To Do With It!
Actually, I don’t believe in predestination. We are not robots! I hate predestination and consider it one of the great heretical ideas that have crept into Christian theology, first by...
A Sundered Cross: Evangelicalism and the Public Sphere
A Devotional on the Cross Imagine a cross. The cross has a vertical pole and a crossbar. It is not hard to imagine the vertical pole representing the dynamic between...
Why Christianity is Not About Having a Personal Relationship With God
A few years ago, I saw a post on Facebook that asserted that what makes Christianity stand out from other religions is that Christian have a personal relationship with God....
“Believe Us Or Burn in Hell!”—Why Unity is not about Policing Others
The Apostle John tells us that before Jesus was arrested he prayed the following words, part of a longer prayer: “…that all of them may be one, Father, just as...
“Thank God We Skipped Friday!”
“He is risen!” read the headline of a newsletter of a Christian ministry I received yesterday. I was taken aback. No! I thought. He hasn’t even died yet. Heck, he...
De Ondraag’lijke Last der Levensheiliging
Sanctification is a myth and a self-delusion, that is to say, the way Christians tend to interpret and implement the concept.
The Impossibility of Christian Community
Last week, the Guardian reported on Bay View, a town in Michigan, that is being sued for excluding non-Christians from buying and owning property in its community. While such communities...
The Resurrection As God’s Vanishing Act
Although the resurrection is the story of the unexpected hope breaking forth in the midst of tragedy, loss, and defeat, resurrection is also always the cypher for confusion and enigma....