Books

This is the fun stuff.

The Entirely Encompassingly True Accounts of the Life of Phineas Cuthbert (Book I) -- The first, unedited, horrible manuscript of my NaNoWriMo 2006 project. It's a story of a poor village boy who becomes a sailor, falls in love, kills some bad guys, and so on. The goal is to, after NaNoWriMo 2007, revise, edit, and combine this book with the forthcoming Book II and make some really snazzy version of it. In the meantime, you can download a pdf of the book here..

Papers

This is the boring stuff.

Finding God's Agenda for Homosexual Students -- (Fall 07) For my senior paper, I attempt to at least begin developing a Christ-centered, evangelical methodology for pastoral care of students who are or may think they are gay, lesbian, or bisexual. The paper examines the latest psychological research, surveys the biblical passages commonly cited in the argument within the Church, and provides at least a few basic guidelines to ministering to adolescent homosexuals. (PDF here)

Why Do Christians Believe that God Is Triune? -- (Spring 07) My papers for Systematic Theology always were a little difficult for me. Basically, this paper boils down to "it's all a mystery" pretty quickly, but at least it does it well. (PDF here)

In What Sense Is the Bible the Rule of the Christian Faith? -- (Spring 07) This might be my favorite paper from my time at ORU.  I use Peter Rollins' doctoral dissertation, "His Colour is Our Blood: A Phenomenology of the Prodigal Father," as well as a few other, slightly more old school writings to discuss the necessity of contradictions and difficulties within the text of the Bible. (PDF here)

Where is YHWH, God of Elijah? The Theme of Succession in 2 Kings 2.13|25 -- (Fall 06) I wrote this paper for Hebrew Exegesis, so it's a little more language intense than the rest of them. But, it's about that part in the Bible where Elisha has the bears eat the kids because they call him bald. Good times. (PDF here)

Righteousness in Ecclesiastes: An Argument for Afterlife -- (Spring 06) The difficult use of the Hebrew root sdq (righteous) throughout Ecclesiastes, particularly as juxtaposed with r`` and rs` (wicked), indicates that the work may be designed to present the flaws in classic Deuteronomistic theology and indicate that the notion of an afterlife is the only possible explanation for the suffering all people endure on Earth. (PDF here)

Jesus: The True Temple (A Study of John 10.22|42) -- (Spring 06) "In John 10:22-42, Jesus faces an increasingly antagonistic mob of Jews and redefines for them the concept of the Messiah. John uses imagery associated with the Feast of Dedication to illustrate Jesus as not only the Messiah, but also the fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Temple." (PDF here)