“Anything that breaks relationships — between God and humans, between one another, between body and soul — anything that fractures the soul, that blinds us to the reality of God’s image in ourselves or in another person, anything that fails to honor the sacredness of all creation — that, for you, is sin.”

This perfectly encapsulates much of my recent thinking on finding alternatives to the metaphor of penal substitutionary atonement as well as pushing back against the heresy of Gnosticism and its omnipresence in modern Evangelicalism. Great writing. Great paper. I sent it to a bunch of folks but some were intimidated by the length. Would you consider adding an abstract or writing an abridged version?

Hoping you turn this into a book some day! Count me in for a pre-order!