Geoffrey Holsclaw
What is divinity? What does it mean to be divine? Is there a pyramid-scale of divine status? In other words, is divinity like a high school cafeteria with all the cools seniors at one end and the dorky freshmen at the other? Today I’m continuing the video series on “Why Bart Ehrman is Cheating” in […]
Following Jesus isn’t complicated. But that doesn’t mean it is easy. Some want to make Jesus complicate so that they don’t really have follow him closely. It’s an excuse for not really wanting to do the hard work of following Jesus. Others want to make following Jesus easy because they want to pretend that life […]
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” Outside the fact that Cain had already killed is brother, this doesn’t seem like a particularly damning thing to say. Maybe somewhat calloused. Somewhat disconnected, dismissive. But in our distracted, transitory, and dispassionate culture our relational connections are pretty flimsy. Relational expectations are at an all time minimum. Ty Grigg […]
I choose messy relationships over Church Clarity. And I choose messy relationships over the Nashville Statement (as I’ve said here and here, and David Fitch and I discussed on our podcast). In fact, as I process the launch of Church Clarity I see 5 ways that Church Clarity is just the inversion of the Nashville […]
Jesus is love. But he sometimes seems like such a jerk. Jesus is kind. But calls out his disciples. Jesus is compassionate. But gets all cranked up about stuff. It’s complicated. A woman pleads for the healing of her daughter and Jesus talks about how scrapes shouldn’t be thrown to dogs. A dad ask for […]
For the poor you will always have with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish: but you will not always have me. (Mark 14:7) From crude realism to hopeless resignation, this quote from Jesus is confusing at best and disheartening at worst. What? So poverty and inequality are just a fact […]
Temple Christology So I’ve been reflecting on N.T. Wright’s claim that Christology should properly begin with an understand of the Temple as the initial place of God’s dwelling on earth, of the union of heaven and earth (I believe this is in Simply Jesus, but I don’t have it in front of me right now). […]
