(you can find the first post here, the second post here, the third post here, and the fourth post here) And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, He indwells all of us, you know? The animating breath of creation. We would yet be dust without his intervention, his interruption of nature. Continue reading

(you can find the first post here, the second post here, and the third post here) and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; Death will not have the final victory. But, don’t you know, there was dirt under his fingernails still? The (re)newed body. The whole Israel. The new Human One. Continue reading

(you can read part one here and part two here) Who, for us people for our salvation, came down from heaven,The impulse is to make it about us, you know. That old narcissistic soteriology. Unless, of course, our salvation is about more than us. Unless our salvation is more about restoring all things. Making new Continue reading

(the first post can be found here) And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds;  If Jesus is Lord then Caesar is not. The rulers of this world have been toppled by the Jewish messiah, the King who came. And he is the only begotten son Continue reading

I believe in one God Ethical monotheism is a late development. I’ve written, elsewhere, about my doubts. One of them being that the connection between morality and religion is new. Sure, obey the gods so the crops will grow or your enemies will fall in battle. But, obey the gods because the gods are the Continue reading