Lighten Up: Tough Jesus

The Cruciform Beauty of Horrific Divine Portraits July 30, 2013

“Only a person who is aware of the crucified Christ can properly understand Scripture.” Luther (Table Talks) In the last three posts I’ve been wrestling with how insights from Matthew Bate’s book, The Hermeneutics of the Apostolic Proclamation might help us interpret violent portraits of God in the OT in a way that discloses how…

Lighten Up: The Devil Messin’ With Ya February 8, 2013

Reflections on Divine Violence in the Old Testament February 25, 2013

As some of you know, for the last five years I’ve been working on a book addressing the problem of divine violence in the OT. (For alleged violence in the NT, see Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld, Killing Enmity: Violence in the New Testament (Baker Academic, 2011).  It will be a highly academic tome, approximately 600…

Lighten Up: A Seeker-Sensitive Church Naming Committee March 27, 2015

The God Who Embraces Our Doubt September 24, 2013

Lawrence OP via Compfight Zack Hunt over at The American Jesus posted some of his thoughts on doubt, and it seemed fitting on this week before the Doubt, Faith & the Idol of Certainty conference to share what he had to say. We’re thinking he must have stumbled on Greg’s book or maybe God is…

Don’t all religions believe in the same God? March 27, 2014

Bruxy Cavey takes a swing at this question and scores a home run.