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Continue reading →: Beneath Folk Religion: The Longings People Are Really SeekingChristians often dismiss practices such as divination, protective rituals, ancestor veneration, healing ceremonies, lucky charms, and occult techniques as superstition. While such practices can be problematic from a Christian perspective, a purely condemnatory response can miss something important: these practices frequently arise from genuine human needs and longings. People turn…
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Continue reading →: Truth, Love, and Power: A Christ-Centred Approach to ApologeticsChristian apologetics is often understood as the defence of truth claims through evidence, argument, and reason. While truth is essential, the New Testament presents a fuller vision of Christ’s ministry through his threefold office as Prophet, Priest, and King. These offices reveal not only what Christ does, but how the…
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Continue reading →: Stay for the Plot TwistSpend enough time in online discussions about Christianity and you’ll notice a pattern. Many critiques keep returning to Genesis and the first few books of the Bible. Creation, the Great Flood, the Tower of Babel, the laws of Leviticus, and the conquest of Canaan become the lens through which the…
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Continue reading →: The Way of Jesus: Beyond Shame and PrideWhen we encounter our own brokenness, we often move towards one of two extremes. Some of us are overwhelmed by shame, carrying a sense that our failures define us and that we are somehow beyond repair. Others move in the opposite direction, protecting our self-image by minimising our faults, excusing…
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Continue reading →: A Participatory Christian Metaphysics: God, Creation, and the Relational Nature of RealityWhen I walk through the bush, it’s hard not to notice how everything depends on everything else. Trees rely on fungi. Insects pollinate flowers. Birds disperse seeds. Rivers shape forests, and forests shape rivers. Even we become who we are through our relationships with other people. It raises a deeper…
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Continue reading →: Is Christianity Really More Western Than Islam?I find it ironic that people speak of Christianity defending “Western civilisation” from Islam when both religions were born in the Near East, both transformed Europe, and both have always been larger than any one civilisation. The language says more about contemporary identity politics than about actual history. To be…
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Continue reading →: Does 2 Timothy 2:15 mean what Dispensationalists think it means?In the King James Version, 2 Timothy 2:15 is translated as “rightly dividing the word of truth,” a phrase that has sometimes been taken to mean splitting the Bible into different eras or dispensations. But the Greek word behind it, orthotomounta, does not mean “divide” at all. It means “to…
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Continue reading →: Does Complementarianism Really Treat Women as Equal in Worth?The standard line I often hear from complementarians is that women are “equal but different.” Nothing we don’t all agree on there. Push a little further and the slogan becomes “equal in worth but different in role.” The Danvers Statement expresses it this way: “Both Adam and Eve were created…
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Continue reading →: Do Paul and James Contradict Each Other on Faith and Works?It is often said that the Bible contradicts itself, and one of the most common examples given is the apparent disagreement between Paul and James over faith and works. I understand why people come to that conclusion. Read a few verses from each in isolation and they can appear to…
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Continue reading →: Is Performative Masculinity a Sign of Deep Insecurity?There is something fascinating about the fragility of performative masculinity. The recent mocking of Andrew Tate’s outfit after his arrest exposed an interesting contradiction. A man who has built a global persona around dominance, toughness, wealth, and being the ultimate expression of masculinity suddenly became the target of ridicule because…
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