Examining the Justice of the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel

May 31, 2019/

This post should not be viewed as an attempted “take-down.” It is offered as a critique, hopefully to contribute to the ongoing conversation…

The justice debate: Defining terms

May 8, 2019/

It is clear enough to most that we are starting at different places, yet few participants define the baseline terms often enough to…

Despising the shame

April 19, 2019/

The hope of Good Friday and the promise of Easter is not only that Jesus took our sin, but that he took our…

Injustice: Abortion and the rest

April 12, 2019/

Attempt a conversation these days on nearly anything related to justice (or social justice)—police brutality, mass incarceration, sexual assault, forced labor, human trafficking—and…

My answers to the SBC Executive Committee President Questionnaire

February 3, 2019/

It is impossible to place all EC woes on presidents when the bureaucracy is the same.

How Roger Stone’s arrest illumines systemic injustice

January 28, 2019/

For the cost of a 6-pack poor people sit in jail for weeks, while on a signature and a promise rich people like…

No, Heaven’s wall is not like an American border wall

January 12, 2019/

In the first century context, a walled city projected security, wholeness, a kingdom, and authority. New Jerusalem exemplifies these concepts without reference to…