Best
3.2018 – An Open Letter to Responsible Gun Owners
1.22.2018 – Immigrants Matter to God
6.29.2015 – Race, Guns and the Church
12.29.2014 – Who Would Jesus Refuse to Eat With?
4.2013 – Learning from Lesbians
7.12.2012 – They Don’t Believe Because Your God isn’t Desirable – Thoughts on How We Talk About God
7.30.2012 – Wanting God to Exist is More Important than Believing in God
9.1.2011 – Repainting Hell – Neue Magazine Cover Story. Page 38-44
6.1.2011 – Confessions of a Seeker – A Response to Mark Galli
3.23.2011 – Rob Bell and C.S. Lewis – A comment on the Love Wins discussion
2.11.2011 – Reimagining Heaven Page 44 – Relevant Magazine
Debates
4.2015 – Does the New Testament Forbid Same Sex Relationships? – A Debate with Dr. Preston Sprinkle.
Part 1: My Opening Statement, Dr. Sprinkle’s Response, My Closing Remarks.
Part 2: Dr. Sprinkle’s Opening, My Response, Dr. Sprinkle’s Closing Remarks.
Final Post by Cook and Sprinkle
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Other
10.2018 – It’s Time for Evangelicals to Find Their Courage
8.2018 – Fighting for Our National Soul
7.2018 – Where Should I Stand When the World is On Fire?
6.2018 – America Needs Less Heat, More Wisdom
4. 2018 – Supporting Cops means Supporting Mueller
9. 2017 – Rise up and Support Education
8. 2017 – The Best Way to Create More Terrorists
7.2017 – Caring for Your Soul
5.2017 – Arms and the Spirit of God
4. 2017 – Easter is a Starting Line
3. 2017 – Finding Freedom in Lent
12. 2016 – Christmas and Light
9.2016 – God Doesn’t Engage in Us/Them Thinking
8.2016 – Our Country is an Illusion if We Do Not Love Our Neighbors
7. 2016 – Declare Independence from Retaliatory Violence
4.2016 – Socks and Your Soul
2.2016 – Moving Forward Begins with Reduction
1.2016 – Honoring MLK
12.2015 – Christmas and Violence
6.2015 – Why I am Fasting for Ramadan
5.2015 – Five Reasons to Repaint Hell:
(2) The End of Evil
2.2015 – Judgment: “Isn’t Judging Others Healthy”, “Eating One Another”, “Cable News, Heretics, and Shooting at Family Members.”
1.2015 – Church Workers Need a New Target
12.2014 – On Communion – Why Church? , Spend Less on Tech, More on Wine, Who is Unworthy?
11.2014 – WWJD? Flog a Stranger with a Whip – Refuting “The Myth of a Non-Violent Jesus”
5.2013 – Separation of Church and Hate – RELEVANT Magazine. May/June 2013
4.2013 – What I’ve Learned From the Lesbians in my Church.
1.2013 – “Why Hasn’t Jesus Come Back Yet?” RELEVANT Magazine. Page 26-28
10.31.2012 – Was Jesus a Zombie?
10.2012 -2.2013 – Top Ten Arguments For God-Belief:
#10 Moral Truths, #9 Religious Experience, #8 The Beginning, #7 Beauty, #6 Conscience, Also Ran: Great Beer Proves God’s Existence, #5 Personal Identity, #4 The Brain’s Reliability, #3 Motion, #2 Meaning in Pain, #1 Freedom and Love
10.2012 – Top Ten Arguments Against God-Belief:
#10 Logical problem of Pain, #9-8 Believers and No “Good” Gods, #7-6 Evidential Problem of Pain and Power V. Goodness, #5 Design Flaws, #4-1 Human Happiness, Religious Diversity, Divine Hiddenness and Ockham’s Razor.
9.3.2012 – Jesus and Desire – Thoughts on Jesus’ Apologetic.
8.15.2012 – Could Believing in God Harm Your Soul?
7. 2012 – They Don’t Believe Because Your God isn’t Desirable – in Portuguese.
6.25.2012 – Real – A Reflection on God, Love and Pain
6.12.2012 – Where Do You See God?
5.27.2012 – Celebrating Pentecost
2.22.2012 – Preparing My Palate for Lent
10.8.2011 – Review of Shane Hipps’ Flickering Pixels.
10.3.2011 – Rob Bell, Cocoa Puffs, and the Mega-Pulpit. On Rick Warren’s recent tweets.
9.1.2011 – To Hell or Not to Hell – A shortened version of the Neue cover article
8.22.2011 – Erasing Hell: The Unavoidable Role of the Intellect – 3 Part discussion
8.3.2011 – Erasing Hell: Does Might Make Right – 3 Part discussion
7.20.2011 – Erasing Hell: Why Would God Desire an Eternal Hell? (A Dialogue with Annihilationism) – 3 Part discussion
7.13.2011 – Review of Erasing Hell by Dr. Preston Sprinkle and Francis Chan
5.26.2011 – Mark Galli (editor of Christianity Today) Responds to my Erasing Hell Post
5.25.2011 – Review of Francis Chan’s Erasing Hell Trailer
2.11.2011 – Reimagining Heaven – A shortened version of the Relevant Magazine article
12.2010 – Tentmaking: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
11.11.2009 – Gluttony – Relevant Magazine
3.18.2009 – On Lenten Love
