Fire in the Bones [Biblical, Heterodox Christianity]

I ran across a really powerful passage in Jeremiah today: Jer 22:15-16. Jeremiah 22:15–16 (NRSV) 15 Are you a king ...

My readers may remember that one aspect of modern Christian speech that gets under my skin is the rampant misuse of the word “grace.” Chri...

(Note to anyone who got here by Google search: This post is not a discussion of whether hell is eternal or not. That debate does not inter...

During an Ash Wednesday service last week, the pastor brought up the notion of signs in the Old Testament and spoke of Jonah. This got me th...

I recently began another excursion through the Bible, with an eye toward a deeper look at the soteriological topics that piqued my inte...

Update: My wife Nancy is, to put it charitably, unconvinced that the wording here suggests that Joseph thought that Jacob's descendants...

What is the point of the Garden of Eden story? Many Christians believe the point of the story is to explain how humanity fell into sin. Whi...