Matthew Worsfold

In seeking liberation for themselves and subversion of the dominant meta-theologies, contextual theologies often do violence to or ignore other marginalized voices. For instance, Womanist theology—theology done from the experience of black women—has brought up the issue of where  black women fit into white women’s theology, especially in relation to the history of oppression at...
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A lot has been written regarding the happenings at Emmanuel Christian Seminary in relation to what should have been a very uncontroversial blog post.1  The academic blogosphere has come to his defense, so I will let the biblical scholars tell you about Dr. Rollston’s superlative credentials and the responsibility of an institution to a tenured...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about apocalypse. It might be because I’m reading The Walking Dead (a zombie apocalypse graphic novel) and Y: The Last Man (all the men on the planet except for one mysteriously die). Perhaps it’s because I’ve been reading Derrick Jensen’s Endgame. (Jensen is a reluctant apocalyptic prophet, who calls us to...
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Review: Kurt Armstrong, Why Love Will Always Be A Poor Investment: Marriage and Consumer Culture. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2011. Paperback. 142 pages. Buy the Book Here. I do not read many books on relationships. Perhaps this is because, it seems to me, they are chocked full of  contrived platitudes. Whether it’s five love...
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In the Gospel of Luke’s last supper narrative, Jesus says the words of institution and immediately, the disciples break into an argument about who is the greatest.  It should not surprise us, therefore, that this has often been the modus operandi of the Church ever since. Who is the greatest? Who may come to the...
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One axiom that I hear all the time is that if the Bible is false, or is not self-evidentially true, or there is no God, or there was no resurrection, that we are wasting our time, and we might as well be out doing all sorts of licentious acts of depravity. This seems like a very...
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Everything we write must be written with the constant anticipation of un-writing. As religious people we are caught up in the ebb and flow of God. Of God who breathes creation one moment and then destroys it in a flood the next. Of a God who is always on the tip of our tongues,...
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The most striking aspect of Christ’s ministry is his own queer relationships. From adulterers to tax-collectors, fishermen and roman soldiers, it has been Christ’s ministry to bring the queerest folk into the community of a queer God. Theology then is queer because “it answers to the queerness of God, who is not other than strange...
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I do not write, because I do not like to be held accountable. I do not write. Writing is an act of catharsis; who wants their catharsis to be plastered all over the virtual marketplace of ideas? Or worse, published so that, like Augustine, we must write a new preface full of retractions. I...
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