I’m Chris. This site is a chapter-by-chapter Bible commentary written in the lane between traditional American evangelicalism and progressive theology — an underserved space where a lot of serious readers feel homeless.
The conviction behind it
There’s a lot of online commentary out there. Most of it lives in one of two camps. The traditional camp tends to read the text as if it were written to modern Western Christians, building careful proof-text systems out of context. The progressive camp sometimes loses something essential while trying to recover lost voices.
Neither tends to read the Bible the way Marty Solomon, N.T. Wright, John Walton, Tim Mackie, or Scot McKnight have been teaching us to read it: as a story, situated in a world, told by people whose imagination was shaped by an ancient Near East and a Second-Temple Judaism we are still slowly recovering.
This site is for readers in that lane. People who don’t want to flatten the text but also don’t want to lose it. People who suspect the Bible is more interesting than they were told, and who are willing to do the slow work of reading it again.
How to use this site
- Start with Genesis 1. Keep reading from there. The Bible is a story; we’ll work through it as one.
- Frameworks are reusable theological lenses — cosmic temple, image of God, divine council, exile and return, cruciform hermeneutic. Each chapter links to the relevant ones.
- Word studies sit inline wherever Hebrew or Greek unlocks something English can’t.
- Reflection prompts at the end of each chapter are for personal study or small-group discussion.
Influences
The voice on this site synthesizes the work of Marty Solomon (Bema), N.T. Wright, Scot McKnight, Tim Mackie and Jon Collins (BibleProject), John Walton, Michael Heiser, Brian Zahnd, Walter Brueggemann, John Mark Comer, Mike Erre, Matthew Bates, Michael F. Bird, Nijay Gupta, and James D.G. Dunn.
Where a specific idea originates clearly with one of them, I name them. Otherwise, I write in my own voice, shaped by all of them.
Translation
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain modern translation. WEB sometimes reads slightly differently than NIV, ESV, or NRSV, but it’s accurate, free, and shareable.
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