• 3 Minute Read Hi Friends! First, thank you to all of you who have prayed for or supported me as I have recovered from spinal fusion surgery. It hasn’t been easy. I’ve had some complications that have slowed me down, but I’m definitely making progress. Things have been crazy….. I found out I …
4 Clichés about Suffering Christians Need to Stop Saying
• 7 Minute Read I recently released a book where I look at the topic of pain, joy, and Jesus. Writing Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain pushed me to reflect on the nature of suffering and how our narratives about God can sometimes create more harm than good. I’m …
Jesus’ Humanity: Hope for our Hurts [EP-130]
• < 1 Minute Read SUBSCRIBE VIA ITUNES | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE | STITCHER | AUDIBLE Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain launched into the world today. In this episode, Kurt reflects on the big ideas of the book and offers a few brief audio samples from the book. GIVE THE SHOW SOME LOVE 1) If you would be so …
Brian Zahnd: “Divine Love has the Final Say”
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends! Today we get to hear from my friend Brian Zahnd. He’s been a huge influence over the years and I was honored to have him as the “Afterword” for Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. “Does God hurt with us?” This is a deeply …
Scot McKnight: “I Grew Up Without Jesus the Person”
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends, Today I want to share Scot McKnight’s words from the forward of my book Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. Not only was it an honor to have Scot write a foreword for me, but it reads like a good newsletter/blog post. So, here …
Give Up Hopelessness for Lent
• 5 Minute Read Hello friends, It’s our first full season of Lent since the pandemic. Just think about it. Pandemic. That’s a term I used to categorize neatly for history books or “over there.” Never did I imagine that a full on pandemic would come upon us like this. I mean, aren’t we …
Your Humanity is not the Problem
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends, I wanted to riff on something I’ve been thinking about lately: Your humanity is not the problem. For a variety of reasons, many of us grew up with a narrative that said something like…. Your humanness is the sinful part of you Your humanness is something to overcome …
N.T. Wright: Christianity Makes Sense of the World [EP-118]
• < 1 Minute Read Check out my new book! Subscribe via iTunes | Spotify | Google | Stitcher In this episode of Theology Curator podcast, Kurt Willems interviews N.T. Wright about his latest book, Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World. Order Broken Signposts, here: https://amzn.to/3eLMSdK This episode is available as a video as well… GIVE THE SHOW SOME …