Discipleship School

Is caring for creation a side issue for Christians, or is it bound up in the gospel itself? This study traces the connection between the good news and the world God made.

Being convinced is one thing. Following through is another. A look at the spiritual tools that make the change hold — trust, forgiveness, and love as the motive rather than guilt.

One of the two or three passages raised most often against us. Read in context, Peter’s vision is about the inclusion of Gentiles — and the text says so plainly.

Everyone assumes He did. The Gospels never say it. A careful look at what the text actually records, and what has simply been read into it.

Deuteronomy 12 and Numbers 11 are often read as divine approval. In context they read as concession to appetite — and the story around them makes the difference clear.

A close reading of a phrase that carries a great deal of theological weight, and what it meant to the people who first wrote it down.

Back to Genesis and the original grant of food. What God actually handed over, and to whom, before anything went wrong.

The older question sitting underneath this one. If the potential for evil is what makes good possible, the responsibility for ending it falls to us.

Ignorance, tradition, deception, profit, and institutional caution. An honest look at why the church has been slow here.

A question with real stakes for how Christians read the end of the story. What the cross settled, and whether it settled it permanently.

Mark 7 is quoted at us constantly. The dispute in that chapter was about hand-washing traditions, not about what may be killed and eaten.

Who hunts in Scripture, and how those men are portrayed. Humanity is placed in a garden as a gardener, not sent into a field as a hunter.