Paul Soupiset is an artist, musician, worship and liturgy leader, graphic designer, editor, typophile and armchair theologian. Paul and his wife Amy have four beautiful kids. He was born in 1969 in San Antonio, ten minutes before his twin brother, Mark.

Currently a graphic designer in San Antonio, Paul has served as the creative director and lead designer at Toolbox Studios since its inception in 1996.

Responsible Christian theology speaks of God on the basis of the particular acts of God attested in Scripture. The biblical basis for the tri-unity of God is found in the pattern of the revelatory acts of God throughout the biblical narrative.  Indeed the trinitarian idea emerged formally in the early centuries of the church as an explanation for the Christian belief in the one God who had also been revealed in the person of Jesus and who was experienced through the ministry of the Spirit. The basic premise of Trinitarian theology is summarized by Daniel Migliore:

Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed is an excellent book.  It begins beautifully and I imagine Scot's main message of loving God and others will resonate with most readers as I found it impacting.  The Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 "... Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength ..." and Leviticus 19:18, "Love your neighbor as yourself" combine together in Mark 12:30-31 form McKnight's "Jesus Creed". 

A denouncement of governmental interference in the act of marriage and a possible solution to a cohesive view of marriage in the Church.

"Why must holy places be dark places?" This is the bitter question that epitomizes Orual's complaint against the gods in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Written from the point of view of Psyche's sister, the book is Orual's accusation against the god of the Grey Mountain for his cruelty in taking away one of the few people she ever loved: Psyche. Yet even more heinous than that is the gods' crime of veiling themselves. Orual speaks of the gods' injustice:

A Community Called Atonement
by Scot McKnight
$17.00
Abingdon Press

The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob's descendants, is not like them.

He is the one who created everything.

And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own.

He is known as the LORD who rules over all.

(Jeremiah 10:16, NET) ... more

What Would Jesus Deconstruct?
The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
Series: The Church and Postmodern Culture
by John D. Caputo
Baker Academic

A few years ago, I became aware of a movement in North American Christianity which referred to itself as ‘’New Monasticism.'’  A website representing those who associate themselves with that movement defines new monasticism as ‘’an attempt to discern the Holy Spirit’s movement in the abandoned places of the Empire called America.'’ At the time, I was generally interested in the idea and even considered perhaps buying an old house in the middle of a run-down neighbourhood in Niagara Falls, beginning to hold the daily office (according to the Book of Common Prayer as I was an Anglican then) and trying to meet the needs of the people around me. I have come to look with a bit of healthy suspicion on my own desires to do such though after conversations with traditional monastics and much spiritual reading, mainly because of the threat of delusion, a mixture of vainglory and deception that often overtakes those who attempt to live something of a monastic life without the formation one gains within the framework of cenobite monasticism. (Without spiritual direction or under self-direction, the risk is very high as the Fathers always say ‘’He who has himself for a spiritual director has a fool for a spiritual director.'’) ... more