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Puppies and What’s Wrong with Ideological Criticism

Jul 23, 2018

So, I’m on twitter now. My life just needed more social commentary, and my more-conservative-than-not Facebook news feed just wasn’t cutting it. Fortunately, Twitter remains the cool social enclave for many of the more-left-than-central folks, which has allowed me to follow some very interesting thinkers. It has been fascinating to watch debates and dialogues evolve around various issues pertaining to politics and religion. Occasionally, there are pictures of puppies, and I am most thankful for...

Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Jun 14, 2018

White Space Maintaining black dignity in white space is the name of the game of life for a black person in the Anglo-American realm. Conversational and cultural norms are undoubtedly white in this realm. This can be brutal in its exhaustion and confusion and can be seriously disorienting for black folk working and living in this space. Once a black American enters white space, which is usually located right outside of their door, they are instantly an...

Lessons from Istanbul – Has Biblical Scholarship Forgotten Its Mission?

Jan 8, 2018

Whelp, I guess this is now a travel blog. For the holidays, my wife and I traveled to Istanbul to spend time with my family. Neither of us had been to Turkey before, so every prior conception of this place was about to be challenged. I kept joking that my only frame of reference was the iconic picture of the Hagia Sophia in the afternoon, and thus, Istanbul was dusty, arid, and perpetually bathed in...

Mission to Outsiders: Ethics & Ethos

Jun 3, 2014

I am very excited because I recently had the opportunity to contribute to two edited volumes that have finally appeared in print. The first volume is entitled, Sensitivity to Outsiders: Exploring the Dynamic Relationship between Mission and Ethics in the New Testament and Early Christianity (WUNT II/364; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014), and the second volume is entitled, Insiders versus Outsiders: Exploring the Dynamic Relationship between Mission and Ethos in the New Testament (Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought...

Looking Like the World

Jan 31, 2012

I can recall growing up being told that I should avoid ‘looking like the World.’ The idea was more assumed than ever really explained. Consistently though I was told I was out of line in regards to music. At the Christian school I attended in Jr. High and High School we were told that electrical instruments were evil; the most vile of all being the drums. The problem was that I was a budding electric...

Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Lessons from Istanbul – Has Biblical Scholarship Forgotten Its Mission?

Mission to Outsiders: Ethics & Ethos

Looking Like the World

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