January 2012 - Christian Piatt

January 31, 2012

On Asperger Syndrome and Broken Hearts

Our son, Mattias, is eight years old. Everyone thinks their kid is special, and in...

January 27, 2012

Mark Driscoll on Women as “Weaker Vessels”

First, I owe an apology for mis-quoting Mars Hill's Pastor Mark Driscoll in an earlier...

January 27, 2012

Mark Driscoll: Sadist Pastor on the (Mars) Hill

I grew up in the Baptist Church as many of you already know. While there...

January 26, 2012

Attending Your Own Funeral

I've been writing this week about inspired vision and embracing radical change even in the...

January 25, 2012

We Need More Cannibals

Today's article is the third in a series I'm creating this week on inspired vision....

January 24, 2012

Education for ALL: A “Sweeping, Disruptive Technology”

Yesterday I wrote a piece about how nostalgia expressed in contemporary politics points to the...

January 23, 2012

GOP Nostalgia is a Symptom of Privilege

There's an awful lot of talk in the political forum lately about restoring America to...

January 21, 2012

Mitt Romney’s Bad Lip Reading Send-up

In honor of the South Carolina primaries, I thought I'd post another "Bad Lip Reading"...

January 20, 2012

I Continue to Fail “The Poor”

I'd like to think I'm pretty consistent in my advocacy for the poor. I have...

January 19, 2012

Kobe Bryant, the NBA and “Gay” Redemption

I can't stand Kobe Bryant. A lifelong basketball fan, I was as excited as everyone...

January 18, 2012

The 2012 Girl Scout Cookie “Girl-cott” (Video)

Some folks are proposing a boycott of Girl Scout cookies because of a recent Colorado...

January 18, 2012

Top 5 Blog Posts: A Month in Review

There's been a great deal more traffic on this blog in the past month. For...

January 17, 2012

Re-Membering: the Heart of the Gospel

One of my favorite things about being part of a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)...

January 16, 2012

Atheism: A Null Hypothesis on God

It's funny, but I realized that when I talk about myself in relationship to atheists...

January 14, 2012

From Sex to Satan, Some Churches Will Try Anything

I wrote a piece earlier this week about Pastor Ed Young and his wife doing...

January 13, 2012

Hating Religion, Loving Jesus: A Well-Meaning False Dichotomy

This week has seen a new viral sensation take over our computer screens. A spoken...

January 12, 2012

Is George Lucas Revealing Hollywood’s Systemic Racism?

I was a Star Wars kid. I was almost six years old when the first...

January 11, 2012

Sex Experiments for Jesus?

Having grown up in the Dallas.Fort Worth area, I'm quite familiar with the Grapevine, Texas...

January 10, 2012

None is Saved While One Still Suffers

For some, the central message of Christianity is about personal salvation. What it is exactly...

January 09, 2012

I’m NOT writing about Tim Tebow

I woke up thinking about what I was going to post today, and I told...

January 07, 2012

Can Mormonism Ever Go Mainstream?

The Mormon faith has gotten more attention in the last couple of years than most...

January 06, 2012

Witnessing God in a Bloody Face

When your three-year-old daughter walks into your room at 2:30 in the morning covered in...

January 05, 2012

The Nerd Gospel

I have a number of identifiers on my various venues I write for and on...

January 04, 2012

Bad Lip Reading video featuring Herman Cain

Compliments of www.badlipreading.com. Make sure you're wearing a diaper before watching this, as you're likely...

January 04, 2012

Same Old Sh*t (part 2 of 2)

I posted part one yesterday of "Same Old Shit," excerpted from my upcoming memoir, PregMANcy:...

January 02, 2012

Same Old Sh*t (Part 1 of 2)

My memoir on faith, family and fatherhood called PregMANcy: A Dad, a Little Dude and...