The Rehoboam Syndrome and Its Cure

Much of the Hebrew Bible undermines the prevailing view of power and hierarchical control in the ancient Near East.
Read More

Exchanges Down Under Part 3:...

Meditations on what I’m being taught by spending a year away from my family and community on a professorial exchange between Avondale College and...
Read More

Ode to Curiosity

Curiosity has a bad reputation. It is certainly not one of the generally accepted Christian virtues, and that is a shame. Curiosity takes us deeper...
Read More

Exchanges Down Under Part 2:...

I’m sitting in a college café filled with energized students, and the noise is unrelenting and optimistic. I’m looking out onto a green lawn with...
Read More

The Utmost of Oswald Chambers

At a recent church board meeting, our head elder, Paul Dybdahl, opened with the shortest devotional ever. Picking up Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for...
Read More

Margaret’s Gospel

Saliva bubbles collected in the corners of her mouth. Suddenly, in a meteoric flash, death snatched her away. In an instant, her rotund, 98 year-old...
Read More

Out of the Beaks of Birds

“And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: ‘...
Read More

Quiet Place, Quiet Space: Standing in...

Parker Palmer uses the phrase “standing in the tragic gap” to describe the tension one feels between what is and what could be. The tragic gap is the...
Read More

Exchanges Down Under Part 1: Hospitality

Meditations on what I’m being taught by spending a year away from my family and community on a professorial exchange between Avondale College and...
Read More

Salvation and the Journey of a Preacher...

“But the truth is that you reach a stage, whether you are a believer or an unbeliever, when you are no longer making up your mind on a purely...
Read More