[Note: this is the second in a series of posts working through Greg Boyd’s recently released Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent Portraits of God in…
andrewarndtSeptember 5, 2017
Pastor, scholar, and longtime evangelical provocateur Greg Boyd is out to correct what he calls a “lacuna” in the field of biblical interpretation, and that is this: how can we…
andrewarndtAugust 28, 2017
The roots of our hatred are always fear. I heard the White Supremacists say, “We’re taking it back” from the objects of their loathing. "Was it ever taken from you?"…
andrewarndtAugust 14, 2017
I remember the day it really "clicked" for me. My Greek professor had just finished up his lesson for the day, and, as was his habit, to conclude our time…
andrewarndtJuly 18, 2017
I don’t usually like joining the fray when controversy rages in the church. The writer of Proverbs said that “where words are many sin is not absent,” adding that “he…
andrewarndtJuly 14, 2017
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am an emotionally complex guy. (My wife will be the first to testify.) I can vacillate wildly between hope and despair, joy…
andrewarndtJuly 12, 2017
I sat by the bedside of a dear friend of mine last night. Barely 24 hours removed from a multiple-bypass open heart surgery, he was in excruciating pain. We had…
andrewarndtJune 28, 2017
One of the saddest things I routinely encounter as a pastor is the reality that most people’s prayer lives hover somewhere between barely-hanging-on and utterly non-existent. That is sad because…
andrewarndtJune 16, 2017
“Son of man,” the Lord asked the prophet Ezekiel, many centuries ago, “Can these bones live?” These bones that represented the waste and devastation that had become Israel; Israel, that…
andrewarndtJune 5, 2017
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