Derek Caldwell

Derek Caldwell writes most of what you’ll read here. His work takes the objections seriously enough to sit with them — the Canaanite conquest, the plagues, the wrath of God — and answer them one careful piece at a time. His Bad God! series began as a response to a simple accusation: that the God of the Old Testament is a moral monster. Rather than wave the question away, Derek walks into it, reading the text in its own ancient world before asking what it means in ours. Derek brings careful research and a patient voice to the questions readers are often told are too difficult or too dangerous to ask.