A blog by Josh de Keijzer.
The Influence of Luther in "Act and Being"
All posts are equal but some posts...
One big reason why Christianity has gotten a bad rap in post-world WWII Europe is that increasingly it...
Deconstruction starts with the realization that all of reality is constructed. This is so because we can only...
Religious Trauma is a real thing. I know it. I feel it. I see it in others. And...
An article appeared a few days ago in the evangelical section of Patheos that really irked me. It...
Introduction Martin Luther’s theology of the cross though central to the German Reformation did not manage to remain...
Theocracy, that form of government in which God governs a nation directly through divine command, is hot again....
I’ve been an evangelical Christian all of my life. Though I’ve drifted away from much of what goes...
My friend, Dwaine Sutherland, was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) this weekend in Minnesota. I’ve known Dwaine for some years and from the first moment I...
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...
Europe has abandoned religion at a very fundamental level and on a widespread scale. Religion no longer provides an interpretive framework for how the world fits together. It no longer...
This article is the fourth and final installment of my series on evangelicalism. The central question is whether there is faith after evangelicalism and a theology to support it. Obviously,...
Not too long ago I had an interesting conversation with a long lost friend who had become an atheist. As we reminisced long-forgotten memories we also had to talk about...
Why is it so hard to overcome racism? It is strange that in a world where most people tend to agree that racism is a bad thing, there is still...
I’ve been an evangelical Christian all of my life. Though I’ve drifted away from much of what goes under the flag of evangelicalism certain emphases of the movement will remain...
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...
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 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...
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....
This article was published a few years ago as two shorter articles at Relevant.com. Waking Up to A Non-Christian World We live in weird times. Almost every day we are...
Today I will tell a little more about what I want with this blog. It is my hope to initiate an impietist tradition. As you can perhaps guess, impietism is...
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...
I know this sounds outrageous, but these were the words that popped-up in my head when I heard that my sister has breast cancer: my sister is doing chemo while...