Derek Flood is the author of Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did He is a featured blogger for the Huffington Post, Sojourners, here at Red Letter Christians, as well as writing regularly at his website. 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.
Contributions
- November 21, 2013: The Greatest Heresy
- February 10, 2015: On Being Nuts and Bolts
- January 2, 2015: WWJD?: Questioning Genocide and Slavery in the Bible
- November 11, 2014: Why “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” Doesn’t Work
- November 3, 2014: “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin.” Really?
- September 4, 2014: Violence in God's Name: Our Greatest Sin
- August 11, 2014: Gungor and the Two Faces of Evangelicalism
- June 20, 2014: How Can a Fallible Bible Be Inspired?
- January 13, 2014: The Jesus Lens: Can a Red Letter Christian question the "red letters"?
- November 24, 2013: "What Church do you go to?" Why Jay Bakker is my (virtual) pastor
- August 15, 2016: Trump, Jesus, & America’s Crisis
- August 27, 2013: A Better Story: How Our Understanding of Justice is Radically Re-defined by the Gospel
- October 10, 2012: God Loves Us F**k-Ups
- September 28, 2012: Suffering, Tragedy and Doubt: 5 Mistakes Christians Make
- September 10, 2012: Healing Toxic Faith: Did Jesus die to save us from God?
- July 10, 2012: Rethinking the Roman Road: Paul’s Gospel and Violence
- June 16, 2012: How Does a Red Letter Christian Read the Bible?: A Jesus-shaped Proposal
- April 26, 2012: What does Jesus think about Homosexuality?
- March 22, 2012: Understanding the Criticism of KONY 2012
- February 2, 2012: I Believe in a Rebel God