Love Warrior
This review is a little different for me. I’m torn. I’m frustrated. I’m wondering how in the world things will progress for evangelical women. Or maybe I should say Xvangelicals. I picked up Glennon Doyle Melton’s memoir, Love Warrior,…
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A Heart Set Free: A Journey to Hope Through the Psalms of Lament
Women sometimes get the message that they are always supposed to be smiling and happy. After all, the Bible does tell all Christians that we are to rejoice in the Lord always (Phil. 4:4) and to count it all joy…
Reformation 101: Priests in Jesus
Having recently passed the 499th anniversary of Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, there is great anticipation of the 500th celebration of this momentous event and the Reformation that it catalyzed. We typically…
If you think a vote is a sin, then have the courage to treat it as such
It's been interesting seeing some of the sharp rhetoric being used about Christian voting over the last few weeks, rhetoric that has if anything become more extreme in the last twenty-four hours. But here's the thing: if you are…
The Female Voices in Scripture
I am currently reading a fascinating book, Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels, by Richard Bauckham. In it, he makes the case that biblical feminists are wrong in regarding the canon of Scripture “as a hopelessly…
Forget Nostalgia!
Following the election on Tuesday night many are still reeling with surprise from the results. Some are in shock, some are incensed, some are delighted, and still others have taken this opportunity to decry the result as a sign of…
Praying for Our New President-Elect
What has been termed the most contentious and discouraging Presidential election in my lifetime has finally come to an end. America has spoken. For many Christians, a Trump presidency marks the end of a now fractured Republican Party’s fall from…
Time to Bury the Bibles?
Few things bring out the hysteria in all of us like a presidential election. Perhaps only the close of a millennium (anyone remember Y2K?) can compete for catapulting Americans into a posture of fear and anxiety about their nation’s collective…
A Political Paradigm Shift for Christians
With the 2016 Presidential election drawing near, Bible-believing Christians are as divided over their votes as at any time in recent memory. Very few offer support to Hillary Clinton, given her rabid support of abortion and disrespect for religion. The…
The Hermeneutics of Lament (Part 3)
In this post in this short series, I offer a typology of interpretive approaches to biblical lament. The typology is rough, not comprehensive; my examples come from the “left,” “right,” and “middle,” from theological conservatives and liberals. But they have…