Sticky Issues and Easter
I’ve never set out to be controversial. I don’t think it’s in my nature. Not to say I haven’t tasted the desire to be…and have fol...
Category: Atonement
April Fools and Palm Sunday
There’s a certain symmetry about yesterday’s concurrence of Palm Sunday with April Fools. The conjunction offers heightened satire and spice. Jesus,...
Unpicking Atonement’s Knots
I remember sitting in my truck, in the parking lot of a Baptist church, reading James Alison’s "On Being Liked," specifically the essay, Unpicki...
Girard, Christians, and Violence
An article in Christianity Today’s 50th Anniversary with the promising title "The Church’s Great Malfunctions," written by Miroslav Volf a...