Series
I plan to run series as part of this page. Since some will run concurrent with others, links to series are below.
Without Sin
Without Sin is a series of entries about the moment my mind shifted from the idea of an angry god who demands blood for our sins to the faith I think I’ve always held, that God is loving, and God’s love looks like love.
Timeline
This is simply a list of my blog entries, most recent first.
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Bearing Each Other’s Burdens: A Call to Love
The reason I’m a Christian is that following Jesus compels me to do the hard things. Loving my enemy is hard. Praying for those who persecute me is hard. And in moments when I’m profoundly disappointed and struggling, the world offers a cheap comfort that falls so flat. What God through Christ offers isn’t happiness,…
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More Than Words
Part 3 of the Without Sin series. See Part 1 here. | Home Hitting God’s Jackpot. Over the course of the next two days, I wrote. I ate little. I slept little. I wrote so much. I spent the better part of those two days in my booth. I left occasionally to do something or…
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Done Being Good
Part 2 of the Without Sin series. See Part 1 here. | Home Lord, to whom shall we go? I was trying to sort out my head so I could be a good husband or at least a decent human being, and wrestling with all the narratives of my past that I described in Part…
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Under a Stranger’s Sky
Home | About | Posts Part 1 of Without Sin. Too Big for Words. When I was young I thought everyone’s life was essentially the same. I don’t mean I thought people were all just like me, I mean I thought the core conditions related to being human beings are largely similar. Our home lives,…
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The Divine Double Negative
Home | Posts | Without Sin – Part 1 When it first occurred to me sometime around 2001 that nearly all the language about God’s creative acts is written in the past tense, I was stunned. It was around that time that I began taking classes with the late Dr. James Cutsinger, then the undergraduate…
Unfair Linen 