Sometimes it’s not so much that we’re wrong. It’s that we perceive too little. We can harp on simple answers when we’d benefit more from deep study, or fixate on the footnotes when we’d be better off accounting for the people living out our theories (or even living well despite them). Unprotected Texts, one of the […]
#2016AFConf: Wrath on the stand
Wrath theology didn’t fare so well at tonight’s first meeting of the Adventist Forum conference on nonviolence and atonement. With headliner Greg Boyd, and seven different respondants (two formal responses and five questions), the group challenged both the substance and the implications of theories about penal substitution’s wrathful deity. I tweeted quite a lot and […]
VIDEO: Reading With Different Ears: Amy-Jill Levine and Ethnocentrism
“While the New Testament may be seen as anti-Jewish, it need not be taken that way, because words inevitably mean different things to different readers. More problematic are those verses that on the surface appear quite benign, but when heard with different ears can be quite difficult. “[For example,] Galatians 3:28, which proclaims that in […]
Sabbath Wisdom: Words Matter
Almost every Sabbath morning, I share with my Twitter network a series of tweets rooted in an aspect of faith or religious ethics. These tweets, tagged #SabbathWisdom, are often inspired by study conversations or sermons at my church. A sermon about the power of the word resonated with me yesterday. I may have been primed by Friday’s […]
When Christians Use People to Prop Up Books
Content note: Frank references to rape, sexual violence, bible passages, and Christian obtuseness. “It’s evil, but it also happens to be scriptural… Tell the whole story.” —Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney
Inspired by Adventist Scholarship
A few weeks ago I shared information about Washington Adventist University’s Keough Lectureship—a biannual series hosted by the university’s Department of Religion. This year’s lectures focused on women’s ordination and biblical interpretation and featured WAU’s Dr. Olive Hemmings and Loma Linda University’s Dr. Richard Rice. I had a blast! Adventist Today’s Monte Sahlin has compiled […]
