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Women, behold your son. Behold, your mother.
For Good Friday, I had the pleasure of being part of a preaching team for a joint service between two congregations in Montreal, Québec. Each preacher spoke on one of the seven last words of Jesus while on the cross.… Continue reading
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Debunking Easter: The Women at the Cross
‘Crucifixion’ (1495) by Giovanni Donato da Montorfano, photographed by me at The Last Supper Museum in Milan, Italy. Easter has been a major Christian holiday, celebrated by billions for millennia. How we tell and are told the Easter story impacts… Continue reading
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Grappling with Greek and not hiding under a bushel: on Mark 4:21-25
I’ve been studying Ancient Greek for over thirty years. Niche? Maybe. As someone for whom Greek has therefore become an engrained part of who I am and how I think, it has also had a profound effect on how I… Continue reading
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Review of Frontier Man
Frontier Man by Bonnie J Flessen (Resource Publications, 2025) tells the story of three travellers – Batos, Domitia and Virgos – who have heard about Jesus and are seeking the apostle Paul so they can hear more. Each chapter takes… Continue reading
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Remembering as Repentance
In his 2022 article, “Contested Memorials and the Discipleship of Christian Memory,” James Crockford writes that “memory is a vital theological theme. Whether in the Deuteronomist’s repeated exhortation to ‘remember’ the liberation of God’s people from captivity in Egypt, or in Christ’s command… Continue reading
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Doing Midrash
I spent the first 10 years of my career in student ministry, and through that work, I developed a deep love for Scripture, exegeting and teaching it. The love persists, and as my faith and theology have evolved and I… Continue reading
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Choose Life: Nonviolence, Repentance, and the Beloved Community
Last week, as images and stories once again emerged from Minneapolis—of violence, grief, outrage, murder, and communities crying out for justice—I had the privilege of traveling across the Southern United States on a Civil Rights Pilgrimage. What I encountered there… Continue reading
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Wounds and Art, Healing and Memorials
2026 seems to be beginning much like 2025 ended. The ever-constant news of tragedy continues to dominate many social media feeds, and while none of it is particularly different from the tragedies we’ve been experiencing, having such events happen so… Continue reading
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Created to be Masculine and Feminine?: Complementarianism & the American Public
I have been studying the history of complementarianism for over a decade now. While my research focuses on the origin of the movement, I have been noticing an uptick in the prevalence of its teachings in recent years. When WIT… Continue reading
