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Before Augustine: What the Gospel Actually Meant
Explore pre-Augustinian Christian accounts of gospel, salvation, and transformation, attending to early witnesses without treating them as a single voice.
What If We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Questions All Along
Consider how inherited questions can obscure a biblical author’s concerns, and how reading within the ancient setting opens different paths to understanding.
Why I don’t follow Augustine (And Why I Sit with Clement, Irenaeus, and The First Voices of The Church)
A personal assessment of Augustine alongside Clement, Irenaeus, and other early Christian voices, exploring different priorities in theological reading.
When the Internet Becomes the Church
What happens when online personalities become primary spiritual teachers? Reflect on authority, accountability, and discernment in digital Christianity.
Why the Apostles Wouldn’t Recognize Modern Christianity
Compare modern church habits with early Christian patterns of shared life, instruction, and participation, asking what faithful recovery might involve.
Precepts and Presuppositions: When We Stop Letting the Author Speak
How do presuppositions shape Bible reading? Explore ways to recognize inherited assumptions and let the author’s context test our theological conclusions.
How to Retain Faith as a Theologian or Scholar in the Face of Truth
Reflect on keeping faith while studying difficult evidence, textual diversity, and changing conclusions, with honesty and humility as companions to scholarship.
Where Did Pentecost Happen? Reading Acts 2 in Context
Examine the location of Pentecost in Acts 2, distinguishing what Luke states from proposals about the upper room, temple, and public setting.
Romans 10:9–10 — A Contextual Summary, Not a Slogan
Read Romans 10:9–10 within Paul’s argument about Israel, confession, and faith, considering why its meaning extends beyond a standalone slogan.
The Rapture: What If It’s Not What You Think?
Reconsider the rapture through 1 Thessalonians 4 and related passages, exploring resurrection, meeting the returning Lord, and disputed end-times assumptions.
Restoring Apostolic Faith 