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December 2014

December 10, 2014
Last year I wrote a rap for Advent about the circumstances of Jesus' birth and...
December 08, 2014
If God tells you to sin, is it still a sin? What if God tells...
December 06, 2014
It's been a hard couple of weeks to be a Wahoo in the wake of...
December 05, 2014
One thing that I never tire of pondering as a Christian is how Jesus' cross...

November 2014

November 28, 2014
I don't go shopping on Black Friday, not because I'm a virtuous person, but because...
November 22, 2014
The transphobic Polish town council of Tuszyn has banished Winnie the Pooh from being a...
November 20, 2014
We have a broken immigration system. And it's broken in a way that is incredibly...
November 19, 2014
During the past couple of weeks, two arguments have surfaced on opposite sides of the...
November 17, 2014
25 years ago, on November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter...
November 11, 2014
The short term mission trip industrial complex is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Unfortunately, many...
November 07, 2014
Generally there are two extreme positions that Christians can take when talking about where other...
November 06, 2014
One of the most problematic axioms in the popular evangelical culture that raised me is...
November 05, 2014
I've been reading two books simultaneously from two guys who have been deeply influential on...
November 04, 2014
Yesterday was a very rich day of healing for me. So many of my readers...
November 02, 2014
There's a certain line that gets crossed between the normal daily inadequacies I experience and...

October 2014

October 31, 2014
I had always thought of Ross Douthat as one of the "reasonable conservatives" whom I...
October 29, 2014
Thomas a Kempis was a 15th century German monk who wrote The Imitation of Christ,...
October 23, 2014
It's little secret that progressive evangelicals like me have a huge crush on Pope Francis...
October 21, 2014
One of my most valuable conversation partners on the Internet is a conservative Calvinist campus...
October 16, 2014
Last week, Russell Moore wrote a column for The Gospel Coalition called "Joan or John?"...
October 13, 2014
Is there anything that God asks us to do for no other reason than because...
October 11, 2014
Today my son Matthew and I participated in a walk with the National Alliance on...
October 02, 2014
When Martin Luther King, Jr. and his entourage descended on Birmingham, Alabama in early 1963,...

September 2014

September 29, 2014
"Against you alone have I sinned." These words from Psalm 51:4 are attributed to the...
September 23, 2014
It's one of those phrases you know not to use in mixed company. But there's...
September 19, 2014
One of the most important books I read in seminary was evangelical Old Testament scholar...
September 17, 2014
This past week, Brian Zahnd and Michael Brown held a debate on the penal substitution...
September 12, 2014
A book title about Jesus called Undiluted can make you roll your eyes at first if...
September 10, 2014
Yes, I know, it's a woefully contrived analogy. Hateful Christians with "God hates fags" signs...
September 09, 2014
In my first job out of college, I was the program coordinator of the Nicaragua...
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