Tag: historical criticism

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  The Bible Is Inspiringly Uninspired

  There are moments when reading the Bible honestly feels like an act of disobedience. Yes, sometimes the text says something offensive or archaic, but the deeper disturbance often comes from somewhere else. From the way certain questions refuse to be wrangled into surrender. From passages that will not submit to the theological boundaries we place…

  30th Jan 2026

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  Between Faith and Evidence

  Misused History and Manufactured Certainty I recently read an essay called The Truth Will Set You Free. It was written as a sincere critique of Christian participation in practices the author deemed impure. It spoke of divine names, corrupted traditions, and a call to return to a faith untainted by history or human hands. But…

  30th Dec 2025

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  P.S. A Response To My Christian Friends

  I know how this essay will be read by many Christians, because I once read others the same way. With concern. With defensiveness. With a quiet sense that something precious is being threatened. The instinct is not malicious. It is protective. Faith, for many, is not merely a set of propositions, but a moral compass,…

  19th Dec 2025

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  Unequally Yoked

  A Family That Prays Together… When people learn that I have left Christianity, and the reasons why I reject the God of classical theism, they rarely seek to engage the substance of the arguments I offer. The conversation seldom turns on whether my conclusions are consistent with the scholarly consensus on religious history, whether they…

  17th Dec 2025