Category Archives: Bible study

A failure of hospitality is a grave failure (taking a cue from Timothy Snyder)

Timothy Snyder identified failure of hospitality as the first of five failures in the outrageous Trump-Vance reception of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House. This post explores the seriousness of hospitality failure from a biblical, Christian point of view.

Christian Nationalism and Christian Zionism vs. Christian Scripture

In every attempt to merge Christianity and nationalism, the nationalism dominates and distorts the Christianity, because nationalism is about domination, while the way of Jesus Christ is self-sacrificial servanthood.

The strong, the weak, and the church’s sex-and-gender crisis (Romans 15:1–7)

How does Romans 15:1–7 bear on the question of full welcome for gays in the church?

Divisions and factions

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God. Now in this instruction that I give you I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, to begin with, when you come togetherContinue reading “Divisions and factions”

No, you do not have a right to your own opinion

Habitual insistence on the sovereignty of one’s own (or one’s own faction’s) opinion is incompatible with Christian discipleship and culpably destructive of Christian community.