Writings from a shepherd of Christ's flock

Month: October 2021

I have election protesters and ‘Never Trumpers’ in my pews. How can we move forward together?

Religion News Service published this article of mine on January 26, 2021. I have shared a preview below. The full article can be found here.

I stepped into the pulpit on Jan. 10 feeling an extraordinary weight. Four days earlier, 11 miles from our church, some of those protesting the certification of the presidential election broke through glass, beat police with American flags and precipitated the first incursion into the U.S. Capitol building since the War of 1812. [ . . . ]  [read more]

Curse of Ham

I wrote these articles for United? We Pray in December 2020. Below is the introduction. You can read the full articles here – Part 1, Part 2.

When I started researching teaching about the “curse of Ham,” I thought I was wading into a legitimate theological debate, a back-and-forth of exegetically and hermeneutically credible ideas. The more I studied, the more I realized that this was something entirely different: a story of self-delusion, how we embrace baseless Biblical interpretations—posturing them as objective exegesis—because they help us make sense of our world and ease our consciences.  [ . . . ]  [read more]

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