A social gospel for the 21st century: Drew Hart’s creative synthesis [September 3 2020]
Why God doesn’t intervene [November 18, 2019]
What grief teaches us about God [August 18, 2019]
How reading Hans-Georg Gadamer prepared me for heartbreak [July 29, 2019]
Losing inerrancy [July 10, 2019]
Is Christian pacifism a thing? [May 20, 2019]
Questions from the wrong side of Easter [April 24, 2019]
Are we better off without God and Christianity? Thoughts on healing the world [April 15, 2019]
“Anabaptist but not “Christian”? A thought experiment
The centrality of God’s love: A response to Greg Boyd’s Cross Vision
- Part one: Boyd’s argument [November 5, 2018]
- Part two: An assessment [November 6, 2018]
- Part three: An alternative [November 8, 2018]
An authentic witness: Remembering Norman Kraus [April 29, 2018]
Pacifism as a way of knowing [November 10, 2017]
A short review of Greg Boyd’s Crucifixion of the Warrior God [July 18, 2017]
Positive theology [June 11, 2017]
Exorcising the ghosts of fundamentalism [February 27, 2017]
What is justice? Love with claws [February 19, 2017]
Are we in debt to God? [October 10, 2016]
“Peace theology” and “peacebuilding”: How strong is the connection? [September 26, 2016]
Where is God in the story of Jesus’s death? [August 22, 2016]
Have Mennonites moved past peace theology? A response to From Suffering to Solidarity[January 2016]
Should Jesus determine our view of God? [May 26, 2015]
The “essence” of Anabaptism [July 22, 2014]
“Mennonite systematic theology”: An opportunity whose time has passed? [January 6, 2014]
Salvation and the way of peace—summarizing the argument of Instead of Atonement
- 1. The problem [December 13, 2013]
- 2. The Old Testament [December 14, 2013]
- 3. Jesus’s life and teaching [December 16, 2013]
- 4. Jesus’s death and resurrection [January 21, 2014]
5. Romans and Revelation [January 22, 2014]- 6. Is there an atonement theory in this story? [February 3, 2014]
How pacifists should read Christian sources—Part 1 [February 10, 2013]
How pacifists should read Christian sources—Part 2 [March 31, 2013]
Anabaptist evangelicalism? [July 8, 2012]
Should Anabaptists be evangelicals? [June 11, 2012]
Christian faith and religious pluralism [May 8, 2012]
Are human beings violent by nature? [April 12, 2012]
Was John Howard Yoder a heretic? (part 1) [April 2, 2012]
Was John Howard Yoder a heretic? (part 2) [April 3, 2012]
Christian salvation—a series of reflections [Twelve posts from 12/11 through 8/13]
- Does Jesus’ death have meaning? [December 11, 2011]
- Jesus’ death and my salvation [December 18, 2011]
- Does Paul agree with Jesus about salvation? [December 23, 2011]
- Christian salvation: Do the questions never end? [January 1, 2012]
- Are all sins the same before God? [January 27, 2012]
- Christian salvation: More and more questions [February 5, 2012]
- Christian salvation: More and more questions, part two [February 8, 2012]
- Christian salvation: More and more questions, part three [February 10, 2012]
- Reflecting on Jesus’ cross [April 6, 2012]
- The Bible’s salvation story [August 13, 2013]
- A message to President Obama about salvation [August 14, 2013]
- More on salvation: Responding to responses [August 19, 2013]
How does pacifism (properly understood) work as a core Christian conviction? [posted December 4, 2011]
Gordon Kaufman and theological orthodoxy [September 18, 2011]
Theology as if Jesus matters: A review and some reflections [posted August 7, 2011]
Mennonite Theology and War: Kaufman and Yoder [posted July 31, 2011]
Gordon Kaufman, R. I. P. [posted July 24, 2011]
How my theological mind has changed (or not) [Six posts from 6/23/11 through 7/17/11]
- Convictions about God 1996/2011 (1) [posted June 23, 2011]
- Changing convictions about God 1996/2011? (2) [posted June 26, 2011]
- Convictions about Jesus 1996/2011 (1) [posted June 28, 2011]
- Changing convictions about Jesus 1996/2011 (2)? [posted July 3, 2011]
- Convictions about the Holy Spirit 1996/2011 (1) [posted July 6, 2011]
- Changing convictions about the Holy Spirit 1996-2011 (2)? [posted July 17, 2011]
On Martin Buber and Affirming Life [uploaded as a page, May 27, 2011]
Romans 13 supports pacifism! [posted May 1, 2011]
Resurrection “Faith”? [posted April 24, 2011]
The Book of Revelation and the End of Christianity [posted April 12, 2011]
What’s really at stake in the debate about universalism? [posted April 3, 2011]
Why did Jesus die? [posted March 28, 2011]
What do we make of Dietrich Bonhoeffer? [February 27, 2011]
Thinking Pacifism 