Broadsides
Essays. Some answer a question someone put to me; some work through what I have been turning over on my own. Roughly one a month.
These are not papers — no abstract, no apparatus. Where a piece rests on work I have argued at length, I cite it and move on. Some of these arrive somewhere. Some only get the question into better shape.
- No. 3 The Great Commission and Cultural Arguments The Great Commission sends us to make disciples. Too often, we neglect the Gospel message of hope and redemption with arguments over politics, loyalties, and how other people should live.
- No. 2 The Days We Are Given We do not need to resolve the future before we can live faithfully today. On the redemption already secured, why final justice belongs inside God’s love rather than arriving after it, and what peace about the end frees a person to do now.
- No. 1 Proud and Unfinished A meme said Christian nationalism defends the powerful and Christianity defends the powerless, and never named a single deed. The prophets itemized. So does this — seventy-eight bills, four charges from Ezekiel turned around, and a plastic tub from under the sink.