Shame Disrupts Shalom: Voices that Pull Us Away from God and Others
The Bible has this grand story it tells, a grand narrative that proclaims a Creator God that loves creation. Humans, whom this God deems as bearing the image of the Divine, are the pinnacle of God’s...
View ArticleName Change Myth: Saul Never Became Paul
Today, I have something that may be a huge paradigm shift for you. You’ve heard the story: Saul became Paul. It is a powerful story. A Jewish man once hell-bent on the destruction of Christianity...
View ArticleLet’s bring the soul back to biblical scholarship
Recently I had a unique opportunity. I was asked, by members of the Comparative Religion M.A. cohort at the University of Washington, to lead a conversation on being a pastor who is also an aspiring...
View ArticleRevelation’s climatic verse is dirty & powerful (how to avoid spiritual STDs)
I grew up around charts. Big. Scary. Charts. Can you relate? And on these charts were several pictures accompanied by verse labels and a timeline. Oh, yeah, gotta have the timeline figured out. These...
View ArticleCosmic Signs Don’t Signal a Rapture (Another Prediction by David Meade)
I thought you might want to know that the rapture is set to occur on April 23rd. According to Christian Numerologist David Meade, we all need to be ready. <<<By the way, this reflection is...
View ArticleWhat happens to people who never hear about Jesus? (4 Views)
Is it fair for God to treat people who have honestly never heard this stuff the same way he treats people who knowingly reject him? Is ignorance as bad as an intentional embrace of evil? Christians...
View ArticleDoes God plan everything that happens? (4 Views)
A couple of weeks ago, I introduced you to my friend Bonnie Kristian. She is the author of A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today. Her guest post (“What happens to people who...
View ArticleRomans 13 Doesn’t Give Government an Ethical Blank Check
Kurt Note: I wrote this originally as an FB post. It got long. Here it is in its original form (so it is a tad raw): Romans 13 cannot and must not be used to give government structures a blank ethical...
View Article10 Years Ago, I Embraced Nonviolence & Anabaptism
In the past month or so, I’ve been interviewed on two different podcasts. Bros, Bible’s, & Beer: This was fun. Three great guys who talk about faith from three different angles. One is closer to...
View ArticleWhat is the Kingdom of God? (with Frank Viola)
In sum, the kingdom of God includes the King (the ruler), God’s reign (rulership), and the people ruled (realm). Again, the kingdom is the manifestation of God’s ruling presence.
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