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Don’t be an Art Donatist
I have a few personal commitments to how I approach art (“art” here meaning anything from books to movies to music to poetry). One is that I am firmly committed to let people like what they like, and dislike what they dislike. I’m happy to give an argument for why I like or dislike something,…
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Less “both sides” and more “universal problems”
A lot of dust has been kicked up in the wake of the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk. There’s been the rush to assign blame, examples of how our individual algorithms give us widely different perspectives on the same people and events, and the ever present struggle with how we think and talk about controversial…
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How I changed my mind on women’s ordination
In April of 2005, during my sophomore year at Moody Bible Institute, I wrote a paper entitled: “Female Authority in the Church: a hermeneutical(sic) Look at 1 Timothy 2:11-12.” It was the first time I dug into passages in the New Testament about women in church leadership, and it was the formation of a position…
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10 Questions
A friend of mine, who has spent more than his fair share of time having to wrestle with the expectations we ought to have for church leadership (and what to do when leaders fail), posted ten questions he would ask of anyone who asipres to lead in a church. I found them to be pretty…