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Restorative vs. Retributive justice side by side comparison 16 Nov 2012 | 12:03 pm
Restorative and Retributive Justice Side by Side Comparison (Source: "Justice Paradigm Shift" by Howard Zehr in Victim Offender Conferencing in Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System) RETRIBUTIVE JU...
Chapter 1 of Healing the Gospel is now on iTunes as free audio book 15 Nov 2012 | 08:10 am
If you're like me, you like listening to podcasts on your way to work. So with that in mind, I've made the first chapter of Healing the Gospel available on iTunes as free audio book for y'all! Healin...
Podcast Interview on Beyond the Box for my Book "Healing the Gospel" 22 Oct 2012 | 11:21 pm
I just finished up doing an interview with the Beyond the Box Podcast where I talk about my new book Healing the Gospel. With a heavy duty theme like the atonement it can be easy to get bogged down ...
God Loves Us F**k-ups 14 Oct 2012 | 10:34 am
(Re-posted from Huffpo and RLC) I recently discovered People of the Second Chance (POTSC), a group that describes its mission as: A scandalous awakening of radical grace in life and leadership. We e...
Hold On To The Good, Reject The Bad: Moving Beyond Retribution in The Bible 7 Oct 2012 | 10:59 pm
I received this letter from a reader, "I was first introduced to your writing with the Sojourners article early this year. Your blog has been very helpful and inspiring. Healing the Gospel was one of...
A Response to the Gospel Coalition's Review of my Book 21 Sep 2012 | 12:25 pm
Recently, the Gospel Coalition published a review of my book Healing the Gospel. The book offers a major critique of hyper-Calvinism and the violent and retributive image of God behind it, proposing i...
50 Shades of Grace: Restorative justice and the Bible 6 Sep 2012 | 03:23 am
A reader of my new book Healing the Gospel wrote and asked me this excellent question: "You say that restorative justice is the solution to retributive justice. One question ... isn't the latter the...
My book Healing the Gospel is now on Amazon! 15 Aug 2012 | 04:17 am
I'm happy to announce that my book Healing the Gospel is finally out! You can order the book from Amazon or get it directly from the publisher Wipf & Stock / Cascade Books for a discount. Here's the d...
My Interview with Beyond the Box Podcast from the Wildgoose Festival 1 Aug 2012 | 12:48 pm
While at the Wildgoose Festival I got a chance to sit down for an interview with Raborn Johnson from the Beyond the Box podcast: Paul’s Bible and More with Derek Flood (Loose At the Wild Goose Part 2...
Rethinking the Wesleyan Quadrilateral 15 Jul 2012 | 05:01 am
In seminary we learned to interpret the doctrine using something called the Wesleyan Quadrilateral which looks to four sources: Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience. The primary source of know...
