Galatians

Perhaps the neither/nor of Galatians 3 isn’t really about moving beyond specific identities.

What does freedom in Christ taste like?

To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.

Blessed are those who read this wise and lovely book.

Six markers of what this means in the wake of the incarnation.

Briallen Hopper develops an alternative to the twin American creeds of self-reliance and marriage.

It is easy to become weary after another officer-involved shooting of a young black man.

Galatians 3 does not sound like something that could be constrained by pragmatism elsewhere.

I want to be like Lizzo when I grow up.

Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it?

Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.

Most social problems are rooted in the failure of the strong to be gentle with others.

There have been many Zionisms over the years. Only one has imagined an eventual end of Judaism.

The next Reformation is about interpretation, but not of a book.

In Galatians, Paul is confrontational. While we should be more cautious about calling other people "foolish," we can learn from him that tolerance shouldn't depend on denying one's faith, and being grounded in one's faith shouldn't lead to intolerance or coercion.

I loved writing Wearing God in part because it allowed me to rove around archives from more or less every century of the Christian past. The biblical images for God that most (American?) churches today largely ignore were decidedly not ignored in earlier eras.

On Shrove Tuesday 2010, I ate my last piece of golden, delicious sausage while listening to “When the Saints Go Marching In.” A Lenten practice of consuming no meat unfolded, followed by a turkey-less Thanksgiving, and an Advent with rice and beans.

There were two reasons for my going cold turkey as a vegetarian: survival in an interfaith marriage to a devout Hindu, and a spiritual exploration of what it might mean to practice nonviolence and environmental sustainability as a Christian vegetarian.

Growing in prayer is not simply acquiring a set of special spiritual skills. It is growing into Christian humanity.

In two pages, you go from a simple devotional habit to being sucked into the vortex of global power plays. You must be reading Brueggemann.

It's easy to love Mr. C. It's not as easy to love Mrs. M., and it’s stone-cold not easy to love that guy down the street.