Biblical theology, by definition, comes from the biblical text, not from Christian history or the writings of Christians about the Bible. That commitment shapes everything produced on this platform.
What This Platform Is
The Covenant Reclaimed is a publishing and teaching platform focused on covenant theology, marriage, divorce, biblical law, and the cultural forces that have reshaped how Christians read their own Scriptures. Everything produced here, books, articles, teaching lectures, and analysis, operates from a single methodological commitment: go to the text, read it in its ancient context and original languages, and say what it says without softening the conclusion to fit a preferred outcome.
The subjects this platform addresses are not comfortable ones. The biblical teaching on divorce and remarriage has been systematically avoided, reframed, and diluted by the modern church for reasons that have more to do with pastoral pressure than textual honesty. The teaching on sexual ethics has been stretched and compressed to cover situations the biblical vocabulary never actually addressed. The platform exists because those subjects deserve to be examined honestly, and because the people living inside those situations deserve accurate information rather than comfort that does not hold.
The Working Method
Every conclusion on this platform is expected to meet the same standard: it must come from the biblical text, read in its ancient context, with its original vocabulary. It cannot come from what the tradition prefers the text to say. It cannot come from what the commentator found comfortable to conclude. It must come from what is written.
This does not mean the conclusions are certain in every case. It means they are honest in every case. There is a difference between a conclusion reached by careful exegesis and a conclusion reached by working backward from a preferred outcome. This platform is committed to the former.
Filtering biblical text through modern Christian tradition that arose centuries after the New Testament era cannot honestly be considered when interpreting the passages in context. We must be committed to the biblical text, read as rooted in its own ancient context, not a later text written for our theology.
What This Platform Is Not
This is not a soft place. The work here does not prioritize comfort, consensus, or the approval of established institutions. It does not make the text say something easier than what it says. It does not perform certainty it does not have, and it does not pretend uncertainty it does not feel.
There is no church affiliation, no denominational constraint, and no financial pressure to soften conclusions in order to maintain a donor base. The work is funded by readers who find it worth supporting through book purchases and direct donations.
If you are looking for a platform that validates every decision, softens every hard teaching, and tells you that everything will work out however you hope: this is not it. If you are looking for serious analysis that has read the text carefully and is willing to say what it says, you are in the right place.
The Founder
The Covenant Reclaimed was founded and is directed by Glenn Braunstein, an author, Bible scholar, and teacher based in Spokane-Coeur d'Alene. He has spent years studying the biblical text on its own terms, in its ancient context, in its original languages, and without the filter of traditions that arose centuries after the events described. Read more about Glenn.