Review of Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity by Barry Harvey. Cascade Books, 2015. This Review was Published in Cultural Encounters in 2017....
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...
Misogynistic Theology: Keeping Women Out!
A transcript from audio on the Desiring God website on January 22 gives Piper’s answer to the question: “whether women should be models, mentors, and teachers for those preparing for...
Review of “Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism”
Review for Cultural Encounters of Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism by F. LeRon Shults. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. 232 pp. $24.03 hardcover. Iconoclastic Theology is an...
Does Staring at God’s Glory Make You Spiritually Healthy? No!
According to John Piper “[w]e will find mental health when we stop staring in the mirror, and fix our eyes on the strength and beauty of God.” His tweet on...
Losing My Religion: The 3 Most Effective Ways to Lose Your Faith
People often think that the greatest dangers to losing one’s faith lie in the world. The world offers all kinds of temptation that lure the Christian away from pure devotion...
How Bonhoeffer Can Be an Ally for Trump Voters
How Bonhoeffer can be an ally for Trump-voting evangelicals: x Learning true courage x Learning to understand the times; DB did not struggle against loss of political influence x Learning...
Review/Blurb “Between the World and Me”
“Between the World and Me” is required reading for all! With his great mastery of language Ta-Nehisi Coates gives voice to the reality of racial oppression in America. He turns the...
The Cross of Reality: A Personal Review
Gaylon Barker’s book about the theology of the cross in Bonhoeffer “The Cross of Reality: Luther’s Theologia Crucis and Bonhoeffer’s Christology” deserves the highest praise. Although, I have to admit,...
“Christopraxis” – A Review
As a theologian researching the theology of the cross (theologia crucis) in Bonhoeffer, it was time for me to read Andy Root’s “Christopraxis, A Practical Theology of the Cross.” I’m...
Brewing An Irrelevant Christianity
Blessed are the irrelevant for they shall inherit oblivion! Don Quichotte is on the march again. Waging war against windmills. This time against the coffee grinders of Starbucks. The only...
Theodicy: Seeing the Theo in It
Theodicy, a complicated word for an even more complicated question: how can a good and omnipotent God allow the existence of evil in the world? As long as people have...
Theology of the Cross or Theology of Glory? You Choose!
Recently someone asked me about the difference between a theology of the cross and a theology of glory. Let me briefly explain. The theology of the cross has its roots...
“Longing for Running Water”: A Short Review
I enjoyed reading Ivone Gebara’s “Longing for Running Water.” This book advocates and explains the position of ecofeminism from a Latin American perspective. The main point of the book is...
“Mapping Modern Theology”: A Review
Mapping Modern Theology is a fun book. I provides a different take on theology as it developed after the Enlightenment. Typically one will read a historical overview that takes the...