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Articles on Reading the Bible

Though the Bible has been used by jackasses throughout history, it is meant to be a major part of the solution. In the posts below, we offer some suggestions for how you might engage in Scripture in a way that brings you closer to the heart of God. Don't avoid the Bible just because it's been misused. Dive in and encounter Jesus in the process.

Articles on Reading the Bible

The Church’s Tone & Emphasis Problem

Mark Beuving -

The Church’s PR Problem

Mark Beuving -

Tozer’s Brass Knuckles

Mark Beuving -

How the Church Can Help a Deconstructing Generation

Mark Beuving -

Faith for the Deconstructing

Mark Beuving -

Kierkegaard’s Unforgivable Sin

Mark Beuving -

Francis Chan’s New Book on Unity Is His Most Important Yet

Mark Beuving -

Lame Duck Politics & the Kingdom of God

Mark Beuving -

Love Your [Political] Enemy

Mark Beuving -

How Will You React to the Completed Election?

Mark Beuving -

Jesus Won’t Let Us Be Partisan

Mark Beuving -

How Worship Reshapes Our Political Engagement

Mark Beuving -

Your Politics Are Destroying Your Soul

Mark Beuving -

Political Healing Before the Votes Are Cast or Counted

Mark Beuving -

Do We Still Know How to Apologize & Repent?

Mark Beuving -

Culture Is a Garden, Not a Battlefield

Mark Beuving -

Christians Doing Satan’s Work

Mark Beuving -

How We Disguise Self-Love as Love for Others

Mark Beuving -

Memorial Day’s Lesson for Our Polarized World

Mark Beuving -

Clanging Cymbal Theology

Mark Beuving -

The Evicted Church

Mark Beuving -

Stuck at Home on Mother’s Day

Mark Beuving -

All In

Katie MacDiarmid -

4 Lies about Living During Covid-19

Mark Beuving -

Why Jesus Is the Cure for Jackass

Mark Beuving -

You Can’t Write about Jackassery without Being a Jackass

Mark Beuving -

John MacArthur’s Disgusting Comment: Go Home, Beth Moore

Mark Beuving -

Pastor Kanye & the Problem with Celebrity Conversions

Mark Beuving -

Mystery & Humility

Mark Beuving -

Benny Hinn Changed: Do We Celebrate or Scoff?

Mark Beuving -

If We Cared More, We’d Fight Less

Mark Beuving -

The Heresy of Unity

Mark Beuving -

Becket Cook: WWJD LGBT?

Becket Cook -

Kierkegaard: Love Believes All Things

Mark Beuving -

Joshua Harris: An Opportunity for Empathy

Ryan MacDiarmid -

The (In)Authentic Jackass

Lance Hahn -

C.S. Lewis’ Cure for Our Partisan Venom

Mark Beuving -

Jesus Was Conservative (but not in the ways you’d think)

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Jesus was a Liberal! (written by a Conservative)

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Stop Equating Peacemaking with Compromising

Mark Beuving -

Our Wicked Tendency to Use the Bible to Oppress

Mark Beuving -

Why Are Christians Being Jackasses about Immigration?

Kerry Ham -

Keep Christianity Weird

Mark Beuving -

Inglorious Pastors

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Don’t Exaggerate for Your Good Cause

Mark Beuving -

3 Justifications for Hate

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Sectual Sin

Mark Beuving -

The Missional Jackass

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Beth Moore vs The SBC

Mark Beuving -

Jackass Theology for Your Ears

Mark Beuving -

Why We’re So Prone to Exclude

Mark Beuving -

Narrowly Human

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Have Fewer Opinions

Mark Beuving -

Beth Moore (A Limerick)

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Stop Treating Beth Moore Like Garbage

Mark Beuving -

Read “Love Over Fear”!

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Rachel Held Evans & the Fight Against Jackassery

Mark Beuving -

Is Piper Wrong about Yoga?

Ryan MacDiarmid -

If You’re Not For Me, You’re Against Me (or is it...

Mark Beuving -

Jackass by Association

Mark Beuving -

The Weary Jackass

Mark Beuving -

The Silent Jackass

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Watching Hamilton Like a Jackass

Mark Beuving -

How Nestorius Got Jackassed Out of the Early Church

Mark Beuving -

Preachers N Sneakers: Hypocrisy’s Newest Scandal

Ryan MacDiarmid -

The End of Religion

Mark Beuving -

Even Trump Has the Spirit

Mark Beuving -

When Can I Be A Jackass?

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Watchdog Theology

Mark Beuving -

Martin Luther’s Potty Mouth

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Swing the Pendulum!

Mark Beuving -

What Piper, Bell, MacArthur, & Hatmaker Have in Common

Ryan MacDiarmid -

Farewell Francis Chan

Mark Beuving -

The Political Jackass

Mark Beuving -

The Enlightened Jackass

Mark Beuving -

The Conservative Jackass

Mark Beuving -

What Type of Jackass Are You?

Mark Beuving -

Don Freaking Quixote

Mark Beuving -

The Sin of Certainty

Mark Beuving -

Superhuman Jackass Guy

Ryan MacDiarmid -

The Party

Mark Beuving -

The Feast

Mark Beuving -

Read the Gospels ≥ Paul

Mark Beuving -

3 Parables on Grace

Mark Beuving -

3 Parables on Superiority

Mark Beuving -

4 Devotionals to Revitalize Your Prayer Life

Mark Beuving -

4 Prayers from Paul to Combat the Inner Jackass

Mark Beuving -

2 Prayers from Jesus to Combat the Inner Jackass

Mark Beuving -

Costumes, Kierkegaard, & Human Dignity

Mark Beuving -

Kierkegaard & the Cure for Jackass

Mark Beuving -

Heroes & Villains

Ryan MacDiarmid -

We’re All a Little Amish

Mark Beuving -

Why Can’t We Have Rational Dialogue?

Mark Beuving -

Baby Cursing & the Downfall of Christianity

Ryan MacDiarmid -

What Is Jackass Theology?

Mark Beuving -