Sometimes just the presence of difference around us can read like persecution to us. Difference does not take away our ability to live as we want, but it does take away our ability to feel like we’re normal while we do it.

Conviction, disagreement, difference, even debate. None of those things are bad. In fact, they all have an incredibly important place to play in our lives. But a generative faith starts not with where we can eke out a win, and instead from the place of searching out our common ground and building bridges that allow our differences to actually be held in relationship.

Why we’ve chosen to delay giving our 12-year-old a smartphone, drawing on recent research about the effects of screens, social media, and attention on kids’ mental health.

Jeremy Duncan shares a simple but powerful tool that transformed his marriage. Learn how understanding your conflict style—toward, away, or against—can help you stop keeping the peace and start making it. Perfect for anyone navigating tension in marriage, friendship, or family.

Is the problem our desires—or how little we understand them? Paul invites us to rethink the narrative around desire. Instead of suppressing what we want, what if we’re called to interrogate those longings—to uncover what’s beneath them and align our lives with what is truly good? This is not about shame or denial. It’s about discovering peace. Shalom. And choosing the path that leads to wholeness.

Some of the New Testament’s most difficult verses come wrapped in household codes—lines like “wives submit” and “slaves obey.” But what if these weren’t endorsements of the status quo, but subtle acts of subversion? So let’s explore the cultural context behind Paul’s letters, the deep logic of mutual submission, and the cosmic conviction that all things are being reconciled in Christ. A thoughtful, honest look at Scripture for anyone wrestling with power, patriarchy, and peace.

What happens when someone you looked up to lets you down — and what does that teach us about our faith? We explore how the illusions we create — about people, mentors, and even Jesus — can set us up for profound disappointment.

In the last conversation, we explored gender roles—how they’re shaped by average male biology, coded into social expectations, and then returned to us as a script. In that sense, masculinity is both a product of biology and social formation. What it means to be a man will shift depending on the cultural context. And even within those contexts, each man’s experience will be uniquely shaped by their own story.

Today we unpack one of the most difficult lines in the Lord’s Prayer — and shows why it’s not about earning God’s favor, but about learning to live in a new kind of world.

Let’s take a direct yet compassionate look at the evolving conversation around masculinity. Responding to online critiques of his take on the Lord’s Prayer, Jeremy challenges the narrow, often toxic definitions of what it means to lead, protect, and provide as a man—without leaning on outdated patriarchal ideals. This talk isn’t about tearing down masculinity; it’s about rebuilding it with depth, nuance, and honesty.

“If you don’t forgive others, your Father will not forgive you.” Is Jesus really making forgiveness a condition for being loved by God?

What did Jesus mean when he taught us to pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”?

In 2 Samuel, David makes a striking statement about his best friend Jonathan: “Your love for me was more wonderful than that of a woman.” This has sparked endless debates—was this just deep friendship, or was there something more? But maybe our discomfort with this question says more about us than it does about David and Jonathan.

Attention is one of the most valuable resources we have. Every day, we make unconscious decisions about what we notice, what we ignore, and where we focus our energy. These decisions are shaped by heuristics—mental shortcuts that help us process the overwhelming amount of information we take in.

We are exploring the often misunderstood relationship between Jesus and the Pharisees. While the Pharisees are frequently seen as the “villains” of the New Testament, there is much more nuance to their interactions with Jesus.

All theology is biography. That is a paraphrase of something I once heard Fredrick Beuchner say. I love it. Because the truth is, all of the ways we imagine the Divine are a product of all of the experiences we have had throughout our lives. And that is a feature not a bug.

My guess is that we all have some general sense of the increasing lack of trust in society. And this is leading to a whole host of problems including more antisocial behaviors. Thing is, there is a lot of data that shows us a clear correlation between the number of self identified close friends we have and patterns of healthy social behaviours in our lives.

Have you ever noticed the asterisk in the Gospel of Mark? It's right there at the end of chapter 16, verse 8, and it signifies that this is where the Gospel originally ended. The tomb is empty, but Jesus is nowhere in sight, and the women are running in fear. What a strange place to end. It's so strange that a couple of centuries later, someone took it upon themselves to add a better, happier ending. But I like the original version because I think it reminds us of the difference between our reactions and our responses and what we chose to allow to become our story.

By Genesis 33, a lot has happened in Jacob's life. He literally wrestled an angel, saw the face of God, and lived to tell the tale, for goodness sake. And yet here in the climactic moment, about to meet his brother, the only story Jacob has available to him is the one that took shape all those years ago when Esau was at his most vulnerable. For Jacob, Esau is still exactly who he was when, in a moment of anger, he lashed out in frustration. And maybe part of the problem here is that Jacob wonders if he's still that same person too. People change. And maybe it's time for us to let go of some old stories we're holding on to about the people in our lives.

The truth is we don’t subscribe to the specifics of Paul’s sexual ethic today—at all. Paul has some good stuff to say about marriage. In 1 Corinthians 7 he talks about how we use our bodies and sexuality mutually. Really progressive stuff in the first century.