Archives

October 2015

October 27, 2015
I think I was about 15 the first time I read Pet Sematary. I was...
October 26, 2015
It’s the oldest joke in our cultural lexicon: the father, casually cleaning his shotgun on...
October 20, 2015
Your birthday is not the best day to start a diet. So I’m not. However,...
October 07, 2015
This was Sunday's sermon for World Communion Sunday. As always, the table was filled with...
October 01, 2015
Nobody came into my place of work today and shot me. No enraged white man...

September 2015

September 30, 2015
It's done. Sort of. The story of a killer. It was one-part true crime, and...
September 29, 2015
Listen. Most any 'change in privacy' notice you see on Facebook is a scam. Social...
September 23, 2015
Maybe this week in U.S. news is no more embarrassing than any other. But I...
September 22, 2015
I was drinking a beer. That was her first clue that I wasn’t a real...
September 14, 2015
I recently posted a review of the new book “Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome.” Since then, I’ve...
September 09, 2015
Yesterday, I did something I’ve never done before—I took down a previously published blog post....
September 03, 2015
Those tiny shoes. I am heavy-hearted and haunted today, as are many of us, by...

August 2015

August 31, 2015
7Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered...
August 26, 2015
The fresh horror out of Virginia this morning: a news anchor and camera man went...
August 21, 2015
The Josh Duggar stuff. First-- we should stop acting surprised. We already knew he was...
August 20, 2015
Women's bodies sure are controversial these days. And not just in the political/ideological sense regarding reproductive rights...
August 19, 2015
If David Sedaris and Anne Lamott had a baby together... it would be this book....
August 12, 2015
As I mentioned last year, I am usually not the parent crying into my latte...
August 06, 2015
I was on my way out the door to visit a church member in hospice care....
August 05, 2015
This one's for the Skeptics, the Cynics, the Critics; the Dones, the Nones, and the...

July 2015

July 30, 2015
A friend of mine who works in youth ministry has a theory: Millennials, contrary to...
July 29, 2015
I live in Kansas--which, let's face it, has never been the most forward-thinking place, but...
July 28, 2015
Ever been on a sinking ship? I have. Literally. But not for long. Because the...
July 27, 2015
Guest post, by Rev. Ryan Motter “Well, look at you.  You’re half the man you...
July 19, 2015
I'm at my denomination's General Assembly this week. Every other year, in the HOTTEST PART...
July 13, 2015
One day, all is right with the literary world... And then suddenly, one of the most...
July 10, 2015
In every generation, people of faith journey across the hazy plains of “What does this...
July 02, 2015
The poorly applied fuchsia lipstick. The nervous stage mothers pounding Starbucks. (The GLITTER SPRAY. God...
July 01, 2015
When it comes to guns, religion and the display of hateful symbols on public property,...

June 2015

June 27, 2015
It’s going to be a great day at my church tomorrow. My congregation has been...
Related posts from Irreverin
Progressive Christian
Wait For It: Is the Church Going to...
Irreverin
Progressive Christian
The Church and Trending Homophobia: What Are We...
Irreverin
Progressive Christian
Jerry Falwell Jr. and the Toxic Theology of...
Irreverin
Progressive Christian
Do Christians Resent Their Own Morality?
Irreverin
POPULAR CONTENT