To Think God as Love

[We agree] that the Bible is somehow authoritative. But how does that work? [....] When we hear preaching in the broadest sense, that is to say, when the church’s servants call us verbally to faith and obedience, do we observe the speaker struggling to say what the Bible says? On more formal occasions, do we [...]

In a recent conversation with a friend, I remarked that giving teenagers and immature believers Bibles was something like giving them condoms. Let me explain what I meant. No one knows by instinct how to live a sexually ordinate life. No one. Properly-ordered sexuality does not happen by accident, but only with intense and intentional [...]

The so-called 2nd table of the Decalogue has its place in secular discourse, for any society that does not prohibit murder, adultery, theft, and perjury – and thereby protect the sanctity of life, of marriage and family, of property, and of official judgment – can long exist. 1 So we see these laws in all [...]

“The body of Christ that the Corinthians culpably fail to discern is at once the gathered congregation, which is the actual object of their misbehavior and to which Paul has just previously referred as the body of Christ, and the loaf and the cup, which are called Christ’s body by the narrative of institution he [...]

I’ve been trying for some time now to find a way to talk meaningfully about human sexuality. Recently, reading Robert Jenson’s Systematic Theology, I’ve discovered words I believe I can make good use of. I’m still in the early stages of formulating my thoughts, so what follows is experimental and provisional. As always, I reserve [...]