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June 2011

June 14, 2011
There's a lot of stuff out there vying for our attention. None of it's more...
June 14, 2011
  Wherever you are, right now, stop for a moment and look around. Yo! There’s...
June 11, 2011
So here's an email I got: John, I would love to get the advice of...
June 09, 2011
Unaware that their cause had been lost, a small number of Japanese soldiers deep in...
June 08, 2011
Letter of the day: I've been loosely following you on Facebook posts for awhile now;...
June 05, 2011
Foundational to the reasoning informing Francis Chan's videommercial for his new book about hell is...
June 03, 2011
This post is included in my book UNFAIR: Christians and the LGBT Question.
June 02, 2011
I've gotten in some very kind emails asking about my childhood. So I thought I'd...
June 01, 2011
Apropos of yesterday's Young Woman: This, Finally, Is Your World, my wife Catherine asked me...

May 2011

May 31, 2011
[Fwiw, on my former blog--before I moved my blog here to Patheos--this post did some...
May 29, 2011
Dear Any Young Woman Struggling Against Low Self-Esteem: There are two kinds of low self-esteem....
May 28, 2011
Here's my new web badge, designed by the inimitable Dan Wilkinson. In the future (being,...
May 27, 2011
(This is basically the print version of the point I made in my little Theology...
May 26, 2011
If we started down the road of questioning the validity of hell, who knows what...
May 24, 2011
Lots of Christians today are asking the question, "Is hell real?" But that's like a...
May 21, 2011
If evangelicals are serious about wanting to save people from hell, they need to stop...
May 20, 2011
So I ended up cutting some stuff from the first third of Patheos.com: Why I...
May 20, 2011
The last thing I would write online.
May 19, 2011
The story of Lazarus is no more about hell being a real place than the...
May 17, 2011
Who wants to be in a relationship because they're afraid of what will happen to...
May 16, 2011
What looks like the end of HuffPo's religion section is probably just its beginning.
May 16, 2011
Surprise! It's a coconut shredder!!!!!!!! I just didn't have the heart to wait until Wednesday...
May 15, 2011
This weekend I came across this object for sale in a thrift store. Be the...
May 14, 2011
Here is my new e-book, available as a Kindle book, and a Nook Book. 10...
May 13, 2011
A recap of the week in which I personally changed the history of Christianity in...
May 10, 2011
So it turns out Jim Wallis of the Sojourners supports the legalization of gay marriage....
May 09, 2011
I'm sure Mr. Jim Wallis is not aware that someone highly placed in his Sojourners...
May 09, 2011
(This is the follow-up to "What Do Christians Do with the Jews? It is the...
May 08, 2011
I know this is so the wrong time to be sharing this stuff, but a...
May 06, 2011
I love mothers. Who doesn't? I even love my own mother--which is way too much...
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