True human sexuality has essentially never been a conversation about gender and role polarity, nor even about physical and relational interactions. It is a doorway into a mystery, the depths of what it means to be human, and therefore, also about the essential nature of God. Over the last fewRead More
The Myth of Redemptive Violence.
Leviticus 16 describes the ingenious ritual from which our word “scapegoating” originated. On the Day of Atonement, a priest laid hands on an “escaping” goat, placing all the sins of the Jewish people from the previous year onto the animal. Then the goat was beaten with reeds and thorns andRead More
Finding Life in Losing Control.
It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m here sitting quietly in my house. Abi, my wife, is away for the week speaking at events and I’m enjoying some leisure time reading a book. With Abi gone, the house is clutter free. Mind you, she’s a self-proclaimed hurricane. And to give her creditRead More
Buried Feelings and Broken Hearts.
The way the week began, none of us would have predicted how it ended. The events of the days preceding our auspicious entry into Jerusalem were like a storm gathering together massive apocalyptic clouds. Each of us could feel it and we were willingly carried along by its rising swell.Read More