Christians often talk about our relationship with God in terms of a relationship. And indeed, we’re in good company, since our Scriptures describe the dynamic between God and creation, and in particular, between God and people of faith, in just such relational terms. We might even call it a love story. (Though certainly a tumultuous one.) But the thing is, relationships change and evolve over time, and the relationship between God and what we might call ‘God’s people’ is no different. As much as we see continuity throughout the Scriptures, if we’re paying attention, we also see a relationship that changes and evolves over time.

It seems today that many people who call themselves Christians miss this. It’s one of the problems with the flattening of the Scriptures — a vast library filled with different and often competing voices from different times, cultures, and languages — into just The (flat and undifferentiated) Bible in much of contemporary Protestantism.

My first series in 2026 was an attempt to rectify this situation and show how understanding the differences in the Scriptures, and the way their understanding of God changed over time, only makes the unified story they tell even more powerful and revelatory.