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Continue reading →: Power and the Powers in a Fractured WorldIt feels like the ground beneath us is shifting, doesn’t it? For decades, we’ve lived under what people called a “rules-based order”. A framework that promised stability, cooperation, and some semblance of justice on the global stage. But now, that framework seems to be cracking. Nations are flexing muscles, alliances…
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Continue reading →: Modern JudasJudas did not betray Jesus because he was insufficiently religious. He betrayed Jesus because he could not accept the kind of kingdom Jesus announced. Like many in first-century Israel, Judas likely hoped for a Messiah who would restore national greatness, defeat foreign domination, and secure God’s favour for his people.…
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Continue reading →: Public Theology After Christendom: An Australian ReflectionI’ve found myself increasingly uneasy with the way “public theology” is often done, even while remaining convinced that Christian faith can’t retreat into the private or the purely devotional. The unease isn’t about whether Christians should care about public life (we must of course) but about how we speak, what…
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Continue reading →: Women Have Always Ministered: It’s A Recovery, Not A RevlolutionThe story of women in ministry is far older, richer, and more intricate than the modern debates often allow. We tend to imagine a direct line from the New Testament to the present, with long stretches of silence between. But the real history looks more like a tide—ebbing and flowing…
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Continue reading →: The Christians and the Pagans: A Song by Dar WilliamsAmber called her uncle, said “We’re up here for the holiday,Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay.”And her Christ-loving uncle watched his wife hang Mary on a tree,He watched his son hang candy canes all made with Red Dye No. 3.He told his niece,…
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Continue reading →: A Relational Critique of Plantinga’s Reformed EpistemologyI have deep respect for Alvin Plantinga and his work in Reformed epistemology. His insistence that belief in God can be properly basic, rational even without inferential proof, pushes back against the rigid empiricism and rationalism that too often dominate Western thought. In this, he reminds us that our minds,…
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Continue reading →: Ecclesiology and Language: How Scripture Speaks About the ChurchWhen I sit with scripture and pay attention to the words it uses for God’s people, I’m struck by how much those words reveal. Ecclesiology—the way we think about the church—isn’t just built on abstract ideas. It’s shaped by lived language. Words like church, disciples, brothers and sisters, saints, believers…
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Continue reading →: Polygamy may be in the Bible, but it’s not permitted for pastorsEvery so often, I come across an article that grieves me. Not because it’s hostile to Christianity, but because it tries to sanctify what Christ came to redeem us from. Recently I read one such piece from a pastor named Rich Tidwell defending “biblical” polygamy. He argued that because the…
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Continue reading →: Fixing My EyesFixing My Eyes Sometimes the worldfeels too heavy,a storm of crueltyand endless folly. I feel my heartshrinking,my spirit dimmingunder the weight. And then I remember:to lift my eyesto Jesus,the light in the darkness. Not a light that erases night,but one that shines through it,softly, steadily,showing the way,illuminating small actsthat matter.…
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Continue reading →: The Redundancy of Public Theology in a Missional FrameworkSometimes I wonder whether public theology is even a necessary category anymore. If we take seriously that the world, including the Western world, is a mission field, then all theology should already be public. Every act of faith is lived in relation to a watching world. Every church, every believer,…
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