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Divine Violence Revisited: My Response to Joshua Ryan Butler on “Unbelievable”
I just listened to the latest episode of “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley which consisted of an interview with Joshua Ryan Butler and Jeff Cook. (You can listen to it here.) (You might recall that I...
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Beyond so-called Friendship Evangelism
Back when I was growing up in the eighties, “evangelism” consisted of accosting people in the street with a tract and a bracing question: “Do you know where you’d go if you died tonight?” (For an...
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68. Justin Schieber on knowledge, God and morality
This is the second installment of my interview with Justin Schieber in which we debrief our March 7th debate on God’s existence and our March 8th dialogue on belief and doubt. (If you haven’t listened...
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A Primer for (Generous) Transgender Theological Reflection
It should be no surprise that North America has been gripped by the story of Bruce Jenner’s transgender journey. This is a topic that is not going away any time soon. I blogged about this difficult...
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More heat than light? Debriefing the Gagnon/Ozanne Debacle
I just listened to the “Unbelievable” discussion/debate on homosexuality and the Bible. If you haven’t listened to the show yet, you can do so here. You can also check out the Facebook discussion for...
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If There Is No God, Then Everything Is Permitted: A Reader’s Journey Through...
In the third debate in God or Godless Loftus and I talk about moral value and moral accountability. The title is borrowed from Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov so that what it lacks in precision it...
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Would you sacrifice your son if God told you to?
Yesterday I noticed the following retweet from Secular Outpost in my feed: Dawkins’ question is an example of what I call the “If there is a God then everything is permitted” meme. According to this...
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God and Moral Obligation: A Review
C. Stephen Evans. God and Moral Obligation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. John Rabe was a German businessman working in Nanjing, China in 1937 when it became clear that the advancing Japanese...
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Ten things that are more disturbing than gay marriage
Over the last couple days evangelical Christians (at least the ones I’ve been hearing) have expressed a lot of outrage over the US Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage. With that in mind, I thought...
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Does abstinence belong in sex education?
This morning I read the following tweet from Justin Schieber: “Comprehensive sex education usually includes some promotion of abstinence. The abstinence portion should be replaced with anti-natalism.”...
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Patience: A Sermon
In this sermon (preached at Greenfield Community Church on July 26th), I explore the spiritual fruit of patience. It is a virtue with which I have little first hand acquaintance, so I had to do some...
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We’re All James Palmer (more or less)
James Palmer, some other white guy, and another dead lion I join the world in outrage at the grisly death of Cecil the Lion. (It doesn’t help matters that the big cat’s name sounds like he’s a...
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A Primer to Irenic Biblical Debate on Contentious Moral Issues
Over the last several years few social issues have caught the attention of the Christian community like homosexuality. Critics often complain that the attention and emotional energy that Christians...
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The hack of AshleyMadison.com accompanied by the world’s smallest violin
As you have probably heard, the sleazy-cheat-on–your-significant-other website AshleyMadison.com was hacked recently and the personal data of thirty-seven million cheaters and would-be cheaters (more...
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Christians standing against gay marriage need to be consistent on divorce
You’ve probably heard by now about the county clerk in Kentucky who has been refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, insisting that her action is placed “under God’s authority”. (If,...
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Are Christians being hypocrites about marriage?
In “Christians standing against gay marriage need to be consistent on divorce” I pointed out the tension with Christians impugning gay marriage as unbiblical whilst ignoring Jesus’ teaching on divorce...
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Everyone’s Daughter: A Review of India’s Daughter
On the evening of December 16th, 2012, 23 year old Jyoti Singh, a young medical intern, went out with a male friend to celebrate the completion of her final exams. The two went out into Delhi and...
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The real scandal over Starbucks cups
These days I rarely go to Starbucks. But I can’t help commenting on the latest installment in the interminable and patently ridiculous “war on Christmas”. I speak, as you can probably guess, of the...
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The Church, homosexuality, and the role of personal experience
What role does experience play in doctrinal formulation? Perhaps more importantly, what role should experience play in doctrinal formulation? Those questions were provocatively raised in Atlanta on...
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Should a Christian support Donald Trump for President? Of course not. Can...
Donald Trump raised eyebrows today with his statement that several black pastors were supporting his candidacy for the Republican nomination to run for president. It turns out that those pastors were...
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