This is the thirteenth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts. This post is adopted for two previous posts I have written on hell The story of Abraham is a curious one. Though he was called out by God to enter into a special covenant that would lead to him becoming the father of the world’s three major faiths, he was a deeply flawed man who was constantly screwing things up. However, what I find particularly curious about Abraham is not what we read in his s ..read more

This is the eleventh part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts. This particular post is adapted from a post that originally appeared last year which I wanted to tweak just a bit and bring back as part of my Blogmatics series in order to talk about why I believe women, just like men, should be ordained.   “Women should be silent in the church.” It’s a clobber passage that’s been used for centuries to keep men in control and women from fully participating ..read more

This is the ninth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   A couple of weeks ago in my post on what I believe God can and cannot do, I mentioned a scene from the book The Last Battle. If you recall, in the scene a group of dwarfs are huddled together on the ground in the new Narnia, but they don’t realize it. They are convinced they are still trapped in a dark, dirty barn in the old Narnia. Even when Aslan tries to help them see the reality of where ..read more

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