One reason I appreciate Apple and my iPhone is their dedication to user privacy. The most recent update to iOS gave users the ability to stop apps from tracking your phone usage across different apps. Facebook (and Instagram) in response is using a prompt to convince users to turn ad-tracking

Your Comments: Things You Want to Talk AboutBeing under / accepting / respecting spiritual authorities but what about when they’re on the other end of our splinter? Don’t want to pick or chooseHow to know what is true from the Bible when there are so many interpretations.A better understanding

On Sunday, March 14, I preached on hell…and its eventual emptying. I also recorded an additional 45 minutes giving a brief history of the concept of hell and an “I believe” statement about the afterlife. Links to everything below. Sermon Video and Audio The hell portion comes in the

In Genesis 50, Joseph is speaking to his brothers. The brothers that threw Joseph in a pit and then sold him into slavery. Joseph's brothers are afraid that Joseph is going to take revenge on them. But Joseph says, No worries. And then, there's this famous word that usually gets

"Geez, why doesn't this person get it already?!" The problem with that kind of comparison, however, is that I rarely know the journey someone else has been on. That's not to say that my own journey hasn't had its own twists and turns—it has. Because of that self-knowledge, I'm

Here's how I think about Divine Providence: Anything good in my life is because of the loving influence of God on the world. Anything evil in my life is because I or someone else refused to cooperate with God’s loving influence. I recognize that my knowledge of good and

I've recently become aware of Alisa Childers, who is making a career of warning people about the dangers of "Progressive Christianity." I will assume the best of her, that she genuinely believes that progressive Christianity is a danger and she has a moral responsibility to steer people away. However, she

The time had come. The first human had died and had chosen to go to hell. A chief angel quietly approached God, who sat saddened and slumped on the heavenly throne. The Almighty had insisted on not putting any thought or energy into building hell. It was not part of

When we say things like, "God is on the throne," and assume that must mean that God is in absolute control of every situation, we are ignoring the God that Jesus revealed to us. Yes, God is on the throne. And therefore I worship God with my life, I acknowledge

You may have missed it with everything going on in the news, but things are getting pretty bad in the Democratic People's Nation of Korea (DPNK). As you know, they have an authoritarian leader who incites violence against any who would oppose him. Most of the population get their news

It’s clear that White Christian Evangelicalism (WCE) is diseased. Wherever you look, you find symptoms of its chronic illness: it’s support of Trump; the steady moral failings of its leaders; its embrace of conspiracy theories and rejection of history; denial of contemporary science; embrace of nationalism; denial of

StatsFiction vs. Non-fiction. My natural tendency is to read more non-fiction than fiction. It didn’t always used to be this way, but college and grad school got me out of the habit or reading fiction. I now read fiction much more slowly than non-fiction (weird, I know). But Emily

The scene is stark. A woman caught in the act of adultery. A crowd of religious leaders, all men, have forced her to stand before them and Jesus. The law of Moses is clear: adulterers are to be executed. Both the woman and Jesus are on trial. If Jesus says