Atonement With A 1000 Faces: Humanity as the Unified Theory
“The current gospel then becomes a ‘gospel of sin management.’ Transformation of life and character is no part of the redemptive message.” — Dallas Willard A millennia-long battle has been…
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Speaking Two Levels at Once: How Scripture Uses Mystery as a Tutor
Scholars like Francis Schaeffer and Dallas Willard, both heavyweights, document how Western Christianity bifurcated truth into two realms. In other words, it treated the world as if there were two…
I Couldn’t Fix Myself
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful, you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.” — Søren Kierkegaard It…
Making God Show Up: THROWBACK
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Residue of Resurrection: 7 Essays on Ego-Death and the End of the Internal King
We Are Not Deconstructing Faith. Just Christendom. This collection of essays is the overflow from the excavation that birthed my book, The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening. They…
The Death We Fear: On Resisting Change in Others
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” — Pema Chödrön The way we resist change personally and in our own lives is a…
Deconstructing Penal Substitution: A Biblical & Historical Critique
Grab a snack: it’s a long one. For centuries, the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) has been upheld in the heart of Western evangelical theology. According to this view,…
Incarnation: The Christmas Invitation For Humanity
The story of Christmas often feels like a fairy tale: the serene manger, the glowing star, the angelic choirs singing of peace on earth. But the miracle of Christmas goes…
Rebirth Through Responsibility: My Testimony of Mortality & Transformation
The last post on the neurological reality of spiritual transformations was a setup for this one. Let’s explore my story through the lens of mortality and responsibility, and discuss the…
You Already Have Everything – An Addict’s Reflection on 2 Peter 1:3-10
2 Peter 1:3-10 is a passage that smacked me in rehab three years ago. It’s one of those where the writer of Scripture lays out a big picture, offering a…
