Romans

Love one another: good. But burning coals on heads?

 A few reflections on this reading from Romans

Loving the neighbor with whom we disagree

Loving the neighbor with whom we disagree

Forgoing congregational singing as a spiritual discipline

This passage from Paul is one that has been used to inflict pain upon LGBTQ people.

There are some matters that a well-rehearsed and repeated Bible verse won’t fix.

Romans 6:3 is strange. A lot of pastors have it memorized.

What if all the energy we spent on taming the flesh were channeled toward loving the world?

What if all the energy we spent on taming the flesh were channeled toward loving the world?

I fear we may reject the justification metaphor too quickly and understand it too shallowly.

Theology as a love letter to God

I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.

I'm always amused when folk are keen enough to notice the worship whiplash to which the tradition so often subjects them.

It’s troubling to imagine the Son of man arriving with criminal intent.

What the Bible doesn't say about hell

Struck down but not destroyed, perplexed but not forsaken

Struck down but not destroyed, perplexed but not forsaken

Baptism is about dying with Christ. Why don't more churches talk about this?