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Knowing One Particular God
Is there some idea of “knowing” that simply have to fill with the right, God-given content, in order to understand how we know God? Is there some idea of “being” or essence that we simply have to fill...
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Imaging the Biblical God
Rachel Held Evans has drawn attention to John Piper’s recent declarations that Christianity has a masculine feel, and that this is, of course, great news for everyone–even women, whose feminine feel...
View ArticleGod is Love?
“God is love.” This is one of the most important things Christians say about God. And, it is one of the most abused. The problem with saying “God is love” is twofold. First, we assume that we know what...
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The God who Moves and Responds and Acts
One of the most significant ramifications of working out one’s theology from the starting point of Jesus Christ is that the actual involvement of God in the world curtails pious-sounding abstractions...
View ArticleKnowledge and Power
“How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” “Why are you wasting your time speculating on a useless question?”–John Calvin O.k., so that was more paraphrase than direct quotation. But it’s close...
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This Story-Bound God
I know, I know, I’ve fallen way behind on my Barth reading. But travel sometimes has its perks, so I’ve polished off the last 140 pages of 2.1 in the past week. It’s been glorious. Well, glorious right...
View ArticleStory of God, God of the Story
The Bible is the story of God at work in the world. The Bible is the story of people responding to (or ignoring) God at work in the world. The Bible is particular people wrestling with the particular...
View ArticleWhich God?
In working out what I’ve called here a storied or narrative theology, one invitation I issue repeatedly is to discover the identity of God through the things that God does. When we talk about God in...
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Privilege of Teaching Scripture
Yesterday Fuller Northern California celebrated the retirement of John Koeker after 55 years of teaching biblical languages for Fuller. He asked that I say a few words about the privilege of teaching...
View ArticleComing to Grips with Ourselves
I blog about God and Jesus and Christianity because I think that all of it is pretty awesome. And like most awesome, powerful things all of it has the potential to be deployed with a beautiful strength...
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