On my commute home this evening I was listening to the Fundamentalists podcasts hosted by Peter Rollins in which he mentioned an event called ‘the Belfast Agreement’ or because of the day it was signed, ‘The Good Friday Agreement.’ This was an agreement signed Good Friday, April 10, 1998 that …
How Will You React to Jesus? A Lenten Reflection
A few weeks ago, I was preparing a sermon on Mark 14:1-11, where Jesus is anointed by an unnamed woman at Bethany during Holy Week. This Markan text is a rich character study: there is the unnamed woman who so generously and lavishly anoints Jesus, giving to him in his …
This Compelling Jesus
Recently, I was chatting with one of my professors from college. He shared with me how he was preaching through 1 Peter. I responded by saying that I had been doing a fair amount of guest preaching as of late, at various churches in the area. I told him that, …
We Are Going Somewhere: A Progressive Theology
Theology can be a beautiful thing. The ideas that we hold about God shape how we view the world we live in and our places within it. It can give us hope when things begin to go dark. Theology can also be toxic. Our ideas about God can harden our hearts …
Who Said That?: ἐγώ εἰμί (I Am) in John’s Gospel
Nothing spells summer fun quite like a Greek reading group, right? The scene: Friday morning, 7:30 am. A coffee shop in the south end of Regina. Three people sit down to cups of tea, armed with Greek New Testaments and a lexicon. Let the fun begin! I am by no …
The Roman Empire During the Time of Jesus (Background of Luke’s Gospel)
The Roman Empire cast a vast shadow over the world of the New Testament. In the past couple of decades, biblical scholars and theologians have rediscovered this fact. The ripple effects in the twenty-first century of this fresh focus on how imperialism shaped the writings of the New Testament cannot …