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February 2016

February 04, 2016
Every Wednesday morning, I give away donut holes and, more recently, cups of yerba mate...
February 03, 2016
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." Is there any verse in the...
February 01, 2016
I remember when I thought Barack Obama was going to save our country. Back in...

January 2016

January 30, 2016
It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, which can be an awkward time for a...
January 29, 2016
I've started a series looking at Christian salvation through the lens of the Beatitudes, the...
January 28, 2016
It's going to be hard to write this without it coming across as trolling, but...
January 25, 2016
I've been wrestling with the concept of Christian salvation for decades. I used to think...
January 23, 2016
[Our guest contributor Steve Austin is a writer, blogger, and family man from Birmingham, Alabama....
January 21, 2016
For Christmas this year, I got Andrei Rublev's Trinity icon. It is the most beautiful...
January 19, 2016
Everyone is making fun of Donald Trump for saying "Two" instead of "Second Corinthians" in...
January 19, 2016
There's nothing more obnoxious than authors promoting their books. It always makes me roll my...
January 18, 2016
In church yesterday, our community prayer included several quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr....
January 17, 2016
Is it lonelier being a grownup today than it was in the past? I often...
January 13, 2016
The Larycia Hawkins situation at Wheaton has become fodder for a lot of conversation about...
January 11, 2016
Have we become what Jesus came to stop us from being? Many evangelical Christians in...
January 08, 2016
Everyone knows the number one rule of navigating the blogosphere: don't read the comments! Which...
January 07, 2016
This week, Dr. Larycia Hawkins received notice from the Wheaton College administration that termination proceedings...
January 06, 2016
It seems there are two kinds of Christians: those who think the world needs to...

December 2015

December 30, 2015
Since everyone is doing their end-of-year top 10 posts, I figured I would do the...
December 29, 2015
Racism doesn't always look like rage; usually it looks like fear. I had a strange...
December 28, 2015
Over the past month and a half, I've read four books by four very different...
December 25, 2015
Can you bow before a God who has come to Earth as a baby? That's...
December 23, 2015
In Matthew 1:21, the angel Gabriel tells Mary what to name her new  baby: “You...
December 17, 2015
One of the most important propaganda moments of the US invasion of Iraq was when...
December 16, 2015
Wheaton College has suspended its political science professor Larycia Hawkins for saying that Christians "worship...
December 14, 2015
Ross Douthat has been playing amateur theologian again in the New York Times. This time,...
December 12, 2015
God has been moving at the NOLA Wesley United Methodist campus ministry. In February 2014,...
December 11, 2015
Over the course of this fall, I have been working through Ta-nehisi Coates' book Between...
December 08, 2015
I'm thankful for Donald Trump for the same reason that I'm thankful for Fred Phelps,...
December 05, 2015
I'm not sure what the right adjective is for the kind of Christianity espoused by...
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