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Want to Read Karl Barth with Me?

A friend and 3rd year seminary student, Taylor Mertins, recently expressed his excitement over finally diving into the writing of Karl Barth. Long ago in my college and seminary days, I made my way...

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§16.2: Why Do Some Not Hear God Speak?

In §16.1 Barth pointed out relentlessly that Jesus, the God-Man, is the singular revelation around which all Christian speech of God must cohere. Nevertheless God’s revelation also comes to people who...

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Do Only Christians Sin?

I’ve been working on writing a catechism, a distillation of the faith into concise questions and answers with brief supporting scriptures that could be the starting point for a conversation. You can...

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Episode 34: Interview with David Bentley Hart

For Episode 34 of our Crackers and Grape Juice Podcast I got to sit down with my former teacher and ongoing muse and man crush Dr. David Bentley Hart. Anyone who’s spent any time here at Tamed Cynic...

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Episode 43: Fridays with Fleming (on Tuesday)

Some of you have expressed chagrin that I’ve not been blogging as much of late. Partly that’s due to work demands but mostly it’s because the podcast has taken up the free time I’d normally give to the...

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The Transfiguration

     Here’s my sermon from Palm-Passion Sunday on Matthew 26.36-46, Jesus in the Garden in Gethsemane. Every year during Passover week Jerusalem would be filled with approximately 200,000 Jewish...

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I Yet Not I

Peter, for whom words were always a stumbling block, preaches his first sermon in Acts 2 to a crowd of pilgrims gathered in Jerusalem for Shavu’ot. Having remembered their deliverance fifty days prior...

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Sin Isn’t Our Only Problem: Christmas Without the Cross

It was the Council of Chalcedon in the mid-5th century that hammered out the Christology (‘speech about Christ’) that became orthodox for Christians everywhere. According to the Chalcedon formula, the...

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Because Jesus is the Temple, Liberation is Not Salvation

Can the oppressed nonetheless also be unrighteous? Are the poor blessed by virtue of being poor, possessing an inherent righteousness, or do they not also need atonement made? Can a victim of systemic...

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Everything You Need to Know You Didn’t Learn in Kindegarten

Luke 10.25-37 I’ve had it sitting in my sermon file for years, a review of the book,In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa, by the journalist Daniel Bergner, whose...

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The Christian Problem with Nationalism

When God appears to him in an unconsuming fire, calling and commissioning Moses, who’s on the lam in the desert for murdering a man, Moses rightly asks for God’s name. Moses knows that his hearers in...

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Every Last Loser

Matthew 20.1-16 I’m sorry if you’ve been led to believe that Jesus should mind his own business and stay out of the public square.  “I don’t want to hear about politics at church!”  It’s maybe the only...

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