The systemization of God leads to harm being done to people in the areas of sexual ethics, emotional dependency, and communal justice. In the previous installmentof my two-part series on...
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 maatschappij. (Net zoals ik me soms het hoofd breek over waarom ik...
Partying As the Bullets Fly: The Absurdity of Prophetic Fulfillment Without Justice
While the United States celebrates the relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Israeli army shot and murdered 58 Palestinians. Yesterday Israel celebrated its 70th anniversary...
“A Perfect Circle” as Public Theology
When the word theology is mentioned people either have no idea what you are talking about or they think you’re talking about something religious. This week I listened to the...
Whether You Believe God Exists is Not the Point
Whether God exists is not the point. We should look for manifestations of God's love. It's about grace.
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...
Bonhoeffer’s Dialectical Christocentrism
For those who are interested, here is a piece that explains what my Bonhoeffer dissertation is all about and what will determine my theological program after that. It may be a...
Spellbound by the Gospel: What the Gospel Is and What It Isn’t
My recent blogpost over at Whiteboard//Blip (Part I and Part II). Part I, What the Gospel is Recently one of my best friends, who is involved in Christian ministry at a...
Theological 10-step Guide to the Evolution Theory for Conservatives
Here is a little ten-step guide for conservative believers to start thinking seriously about the evolution theory. Since I am a theologian, this is an account that touches primarily on...
Het hart van de zaak: waarom apologetiek faalt te overtuigen
The Heart of the Matter: Why Apologetics Fails to Convince This is the pre-editorial version of my recent (Dutch language) article for newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad, a conservative newspaper in the Netherlands,...
Postmodern Apologetics?
This post is a translation of my article for “Reformatorisch Dagblad,” a conservative Dutch newspaper, on the way in which contemporary phenomenology provides a new apologetic argument of sorts for...
Geloof hoog op agenda postmoderne filosofie
I wrote this article on the apologetic nature of the New Phenomenology for Dutch newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad in April 2014. In mijn vorige bijdrage voor Weerwoord beloofde ik dieper in...
Het einde van apologetiek?
My pre-edited article for Dutch newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad, March 2014 Myron Penner’s boek The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a Postmodern Context ontving onlangs de 2014 Award of Merit...
Apologetiek als Probleem
I wrote this article for Dutch newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad in January 2014. Hoe komt het dat apologetische argumenten meestal niet werken? Voor ons christenen voorzien ze in een behoefte: apologetiek...
Is vandaag een andere apologetiek nodig dan vroeger?
I wrote this article for Dutch newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad in June 2012. Apologetiek is verdediging het christelijk geloof. De apologetiek springt in op de vragen die gesteld worden door ongelovigen....