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Derek Flood

Derek Flood

 

Derek Flood is the author of Healing the Gospel: A Radical Vision for Grace, Justice, and the Cross. He is a featured blogger for the Huffington Post, Red Letter Christians, and writes regularly at his website theRebelGod.com. A longtime voice in the post-conservative evangelical movement, Derek’s focus is on wrestling with questions of faith and doubt, violence in the Bible, relational theology, and understanding the cross from the perspective of grace and restorative justice. 

Blog Posts by Derek Flood

Posted by Derek Flood 7 weeks 1 day ago
Paranorman, the stop-motion animated feature by Laika Studios just came out on Netflix instant download, so we decided to watch it for our family movie night. It's a fun film, perhaps a bit too scary...
Posted by Derek Flood 30 weeks 13 hours ago
A 10-year-old boy holding a grenade approaches a group of soldiers. He does not respond to their shouts. One shoots him with his M-16 and the boy crumbles to the ground, dead.Did he have a choice? It...
Posted by Derek Flood 40 weeks 1 day ago
Why did Jesus have to die? Was it to appease a wrathful God's demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save us from God? How could someone ever truly love or trust a God like that? How can...
Posted by Derek Flood 42 weeks 1 day ago
I was watching this recent video where Tim Keller (along with Don Carson and John Piper) addresses why The Gospel Coalition is explicitly complementarian (a nice way to say...
Posted by Derek Flood 46 weeks 5 days ago
Biblical literalism, and the corresponding idea of the inerrancy of scripture, has been bumping up against the sciences for a long time.Way back in the Renaissance, the church insisted that the Bible...

Articles by Derek Flood

Paul shows us how to wrestle with violent passages in the Hebrew Bible.