How To Completely Misuse The Bible In 5 Easy Steps Just start quoting Old Testament rules when you want to govern someone’s behavior. Assume the Bible is all about YOU. Attempt to arrive at meaning without first understanding the culture it was written to. Discount the fact that it wasn’t originally written in English. Let Continue reading

She Reads Truth She Reads Truth is a beautiful website full of devotions, studies, and meditations on God’s word. It’s focused on women and authored by women, but I’ve already found a share of encouragement there. Perhaps you will as well. Continue reading

How to Date Jesus’ Wife I like that the title of this post sounds like an advice column. Anyway: In the Gospel of Philip, there are intimations of Jesus being married, or at least having a partner. The Coptic term is a little ambiguous, at least regarding Mary. It’s a mysterious text, but what’s going Continue reading

‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ likely isn’t a modern forgery, scientists claim Lead researcher Karen King acknowledges that her findings don’t prove that Jesus had a wife, though she believes it does indicate that early Christians were discussing issues related to sex and marriage. In her view, the document proves that “women who are mothers and Continue reading

Five Bible Verses You Need to Stop Misusing Christians read (and quote) Scripture in tiny, artificial fragments all the time. And by doing so, do we alter the meaning without even realizing it. Digital Bible apps make it easier than ever to Twitterize holy writ. But we’ve been doing it for ages. Here are some Continue reading

Why Christianity Demands Pacifism Human beings still judge poorly in their own cases. They still deceive themselves about their own righteousness. They still fool themselves into believing that their motives and intentions are pure when pride is really what’s driving them. And when these traits are amplified into collective (communal, political, national) endeavors, the logic Continue reading

Servant Leadership At Home This was the final installment of the series I helped with at my congregation about servant leadership. This one is all about being servants at home. When we look at passages like Ephesians 5 & 6 — passages that all about loving, about submitting, about obeying, and about patient discipline — Continue reading

Serving Our Neighbors This is another installment in the series on servant leadership I helped with at South Boone. This one is about reaching out to our communities. To often, we try to be like the man in Luke 10, who asks Jesus: “Who is my neighbor?” But the truth is we are all neighbors. Continue reading