Forgiving Your Enemies…Mmmm, Really?
If you’re like me, you tend to play a movie-reel in your head as you read the gospels. We can’t help it—living in the age of movies, we naturally allow our view...
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N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Scripture”: Ch. 6–The Problem of Evil
In chapter 6 of Surprised by Scripture, N.T. Wright tackles the problem of evil: how can you reconcile the reality of evil with a belief in a good God? That is ...
Thoughts on Planned Parenthood’s Harvesting of Organs from the “Least of These”
I want to take a break from N.T. Wright, and take some time to comment on the recent scandal involving Planned Parenthood and their harvesting of organs from ab...
N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Scripture” Ch. 5: Jesus is Coming—Plant a Tree!
If you do any amount of reading of N.T. Wright, you will quickly see that one of the biggest things he emphasizes about the original gospel proclamation of the ...
N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Scripture” Ch. 4: Should Women be Ordained?
Should women be ordained as ministers? Should women have leadership positions in the church? Generally speaking, your answer to that question pretty much pigeon...
N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Scripture” Ch. 3: The Resurrection
In N.T. Wright’s third chapter of Surprised by Scripture, he asks the question, “Can a scientist believe in the resurrection?” In fact, this question does not n...
Book Review: N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Scripture”: Ch. 2–Do we need a historical Adam?
The second chapter in N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Scripture tackles a subject that tends to be an extremely hot-button issue within American Evangelicalism today...
Book Review: “Surprised by Scripture” by N.T. Wright (Part 1)…and why I don’t believe in miracles!
Quite obviously, one very important part of a Christian’s life is learning about the Bible: what it is, how to interpret it, and what role does it play in the i...
Christianity in the Modern/Postmodern World
***This is a revised version of an early post I wrote for my earlier blog. I think it is still more relevant than ever. We are certainly living in interesting t...
U2 and Faith…in Zoo Station
By the end of the 1980s, U2 had become one of the most, if not the most, popular rock bands in the world. Their Joshua Tree album of 1987 gave us songs like “I ...