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Continue reading →: Beyond the Curse: Rethinking Power and Partnership After the FallIn the story of the Fall, there is a tragic turning: human relationships fracture, and domination enters a world once marked by mutuality. The words spoken to Eve, “your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you,” are often read as divine prescription. But what if…
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Continue reading →: Haiku: Humble Seeds Are SownHumble seeds are sown Among them, the weeds have grown Patience, till they’re known.
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Continue reading →: Haiku: White Smoke Curls SkywardWhite smoke curls skyward—not an end, but a questionjustice holds its breath
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Continue reading →: Haiku: Autumn Wind ReturnsAutumn wind returns,sweeping what I could not move—Your breath, not my own
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Continue reading →: What Kind of Theology Am I Doing Here?As I reflect on the body of writing I’ve built over the last twenty years here at Curious Christian, I find myself wondering how others might characterize the kind of theology I’m doing. If we were to frame it in terms of the traditional theological disciplines—biblical, historical, systematic, and practical—how would…
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Continue reading →: Why Missing Voices Matter: A Lesson in Survivorship BiasSurvivorship bias is when we only pay attention to the people or things that made it through a situation—and forget about the ones that didn’t. That can seriously mess with our conclusions, because we’re not seeing the whole picture. The WWII Plane Example There’s a famous story from World War II…
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Continue reading →: In Spite of the ChurchI follow Jesus in spite of the church, not because of it. That may sound harsh, maybe even a little rebellious, but it’s the truth of my journey. As a kid, I encountered monsters without always knowing it—Christian leaders who were pedophiles. I wasn’t preyed upon myself (and I’m deeply…
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Continue reading →: One Wild And Precious LifeThe Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world?Who made the swan, and the black bear?Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean —the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,who is moving her jaws back and forth instead…
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Continue reading →: Faithful but Not Fearful: A Gentler Way of Following God Amongst Other GodsThe story of Israel in exile is one of resilience—of a people clinging to their God in a foreign land, resisting assimilation by doubling down on their covenant with YHWH. Faced with the loss of land, temple, and autonomy, they found strength in rejecting the gods of their captors and…
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Continue reading →: How Can We Bear Witness Against Injustice If Ethics Is Always Relative?I’ve been thinking a lot about claims that ethics is nothing more than a social construct—something we make up together, shaped by culture, time, and place. On some level, that makes sense. Different societies do have different values. What one group sees as honorable, another might see as offensive. If…
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