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April 2015

April 26, 2015
The Christian blogosphere seems to viralize two things: 1) numbered lists (five reasons why this,...
April 24, 2015
This week I've been reading Terry Hershey's book Sanctuary as part of our Patheos book...
April 22, 2015
I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my blog traffic. A year ago,...
April 21, 2015
1 John 4 is one of the most comforting and life-giving chapters of the whole...
April 17, 2015
During the past week, I have had the privilege of supporting two different political campaigns,...
April 13, 2015
Every Wednesday morning, I try to convince hundreds of power-walking Tulane students to accept a...
April 08, 2015
Like many others, I watched the video of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shooting...
April 06, 2015
During Lent this year, a Presbyterian minister named John Shuck posted on the Friendly Atheist...
April 03, 2015
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" These words that Jesus spoke on...

February 2015

February 18, 2015
I figured Ash Wednesday would be a good day to meditate upon the meaning of...
February 17, 2015
Mardi Gras. Everyone down here in New Orleans is enamored with it. I enjoyed... some...
February 16, 2015
We talked about Brian Williams in Sunday school yesterday. I can't remember exactly what the...
February 13, 2015
Dianna Anderson is a twitter friend and conversation partner who is part of our growing tribe...
February 09, 2015
In response to the backlash against Barack Obama's Prayer Breakfast remarks about violence that had...
February 08, 2015
During the past week, both President Obama and Pope Francis generated Internet controversies that exemplified...
February 02, 2015
What is God's attitude toward our sin? How you answer this question says a lot...

January 2015

January 28, 2015
[Trigger warning: genuinely confused but well-intentioned dudebro asking honest questions that may be offensive and
January 24, 2015
Is humanity good or evil? Some conservative evangelicals would say that the answer to this...
January 18, 2015
This photo pretty well captures the personality of my crazy, wonderful grandpa, Ralph Storm, whose...
January 14, 2015
Most cultures in human history have had some concept of God, whether it's one god...
January 08, 2015
Today's psalm from the Presbyterian daily lectionary was Psalm 46. A couple of lines in this...
January 07, 2015
First of all, I'm completely dissatisfied with the title. Few words are more played out...
January 05, 2015
Yesterday in church, our pastor prayed, "Make us comfortable with being uncomfortable." I'd been looking...

December 2014

December 31, 2014
A lot of bloggers at the end of the year put out a list of...
December 29, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine shared a set of ten "non-commandments"...
December 27, 2014
At a recent campus ministry conference, the closing sermon was about Jesus' exhortation to "enter...
December 24, 2014
I know that I've been sharing a lot of troubling articles on social media about...
December 18, 2014
At a campus ministry conference I've been attending, a conservative evangelical speaker talked about the...
December 15, 2014
There's a war during the Christmas season that's different than the supposed "war on Christmas"...
December 11, 2014
In the world of politics, most things are the opposite of what they seem. When...
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