2025
Judaism: God’s Pathway to Race-Free Christianity
While serving at a church in Maryland, Julaine and I developed a close friendship with a couple, Nicole and Donnie Christianson. One day, Nicole made this casual but powerful statement to Julaine, saying that Christianity without Judaism just didn’t make sense to her. That simple comment redirected our entire theological journey from replacement theology to the realization that Judaism and Christianity are not rivals but siblings within the same Abrahamic inheritance of Hope.
2023
Celtic Christian Doctrines That Guide Our Triune Faith
In 563 AD St. Columba arrived on the island of Iona located just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland. There he built his first Celtic church and established a monastic community. Once the Iona Abbey was erected, the Irish monk set about converting most of pagan Scotland and northern England to the Christian faith.
2023
What does dignity mean?
In August 2021 a film was released titled Respect. The movie chronicles the ascent of American recording superstar Aretha Franklin’s journey from a young child singing in her father’s church to international fame. The film’s title comes from a song written by Otis Redding, and later popularized by the late great ‘Queen of Soul’. The song’s lyrics ask two questions that are relevant to our topic.