Articles
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Tim Mackie’s Theology: A Comprehensive Exploration
Tim Mackie is a name that resonates widely in contemporary Christian circles, primarily due to his role as co-founder of The Bible Project, an initiative that uses animated videos and podcasts to make biblical themes accessible to a broad audience. With…
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Slavery in the Bible: Does the Bible Condemn Slavery?
The topic of slavery in the Bible is one of the most complex and controversial discussions within biblical scholarship and modern ethics. It triggers tough questions: Does the Bible outright condemn slavery? If not, does that mean God condones it? And…
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Preparing an Abode for God: Christ’s Death as Decontamination
What if the best cultural translation of the concept of atonement is that of cosmic decontamination? And what if the biblical authors – Old Testament and New – wrote from the viewpoint that the world needed to be ritually prepared for…
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Hell Anxiety & Attachment Theory
If the gospel we’ve heard does not soothe our deepest fears of being punished and abandoned, but instead increases those fears, it’s not truly good news. For many, what we’ve been taught about Hell taps into our deepest fears about whether…
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Responding to the Social Justice Statement
John MacArthur, Justin Peters, Voddie Baucham and others have put out The Statement on Social Justice & the Gospel (#SocialJusticeStatement) today. We’re pretty saddened, but not shocked. Here are some thoughts for anyone else that feels like this is crazy. You’re…
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“You Sound Angry”
One of the most common pieces of critical feedback we receive about the show is that we sound angry. The recent Statement on Social Justice and our reactions to it got Nate and Tim into an hours-long discussion on the role…
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Paul’s Ethics of Relinquishing Power and the Letter to Philemon
Paul’s letter to the slavemaster Philemon reveals, if we let it, a window into Paul’s Christian ethics pertaining to power. To Paul, Christians wielding such social power over others must relinquish it in order to re-construe the relationship as one of…
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Power, Privilege and the Status of the Firstborn
SIBLING RIVALRY IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS (This paper was originally presented in a seminar on Genesis with Dr. Timothy Mackie at Western Seminary in July, 2018.) Introduction: Adam and Eve (Gen. 2-3) It might be argued that the creation of…
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Paul, Power and Gender
Introduction There is a longstanding error in biblical studies of failing to see how Paul’s theology of Christian power informed his theology of gender. References in Paul’s letters to ecclesial order, such as addresses to elders and deacons, have been mistaken…
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Relinquishing Power: A Christian Minister’s Code of Ethics
Jesus said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant,…