Rachel Held Evans, author and blogger of her eponymous blog, has become something of a torchbearer for a generation of angsty young adults fed-up with traditional, conservative evangelicalism. Her asserting, insisting voice typically comes hot on the heals of a traditional, conservative move/position/posture she thinks is a bozo move/position/posture. Enter her latest blog post: How to Win a Culture War and Lose a Generation. In it, she...

This blog series is based on the research, findings, and arguments that went into my ThM (Historical Theology) thesis and new book, Reimagining the Kingdom: The Generational Development of Liberal Kingdom Grammar from Schleiermacher to McLaren.  Yesterday, someone (and I do know who you are!) posted a 1-star, 147 word review of Reimagining the Kingdom on Amazon. Aside from the fact he didn’t engage a single idea or argument in the...

I’m pleased to announce my new book, Reimagining the Kingdom: The Generational Development of Liberal Kingdom Grammar from Schleiermacher to McLaren, is now available in print. There are a few ways to order it: •From me directly for $12 ($6 off this week) with free shipping •From Barnes and Noble for $10.94 (39% discount) plus shipping •From Amazon (eventually, though currently it’s out of stock) •It is also...

Over the past several years, several pro-gay Christians have sounded the drum beat, along with the rest of culture, that gay marriage is an issue of justice. Particularly over the past few months as things have heated up in North Carolina and now in the White House, liberal Christians who advocate for same-sex marriage say it is an issue of social justice. They lump this issue in with a whole host of other social justice issues, claiming,...

I’ve been contemplating death a lot, lately. Maybe it’s because I just turned 32, and I see my young adult life quickly passing by. Maybe it’s because I’m just coming out of “the land between,” that murky, vacuous space where you’re confused as heck about your purpose in life. Maybe it’s because a childhood neighbor friend dropped dead of a heart attack a few months ago at the age of 29 on an...

I’m pleased to announce my new book, Reimagining the Kingdom: The Generational Development of Liberal Kingdom Grammar from Schleiermacher to McLaren, is now available as an ebook for NOOK and Kindle. A print version will be available to purchase within a week or so from most online retailers. You can also pre-order it HERE. This book traces the generational development of liberal Kingdom grammar from Schleiermacher to Ritschl,...

At the risk of seeming cruel by telling you the ending to the story before you’ve had a chance to interact with my arguments, I give you the conclusion to my new book, Reimagining the Kingdom: The Generational Development of Liberal Kingdom Grammar from Schleiermacher to McLaren. Yesterday, I posted the introduction and the day before the preface outlining my motivation for the topic of my ThM thesis that went into this book. Again,...

Yesterday I posted the preface to my newest book launching on Friday, which is my ThM thesis. It’s titled Reimagining the Kingdom: The Generational Development of Liberal Kingdom Grammar from Schleiermacher to McLaren. The book is a historical theological comparison of the major generational voices of theological liberalism and their entire Kingdom grammar, including: Frederick Schleiermacher, Albrecht Ritschl, Paul Rauschenbusch,...