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September 2014

September 06, 2014
The Village Voice in New York City has a weekly advice column by a guy...
September 02, 2014
In a video clip that has been making the rounds on social media, prosperity gospel...

August 2014

August 31, 2014
I wanted to ponder the difference between grace and niceness in difficult online conversations, particularly...
August 25, 2014
"I was beginning to confidently believe that the only way of discerning what God wanted...
August 20, 2014
I know. He doesn't look all that angry. There just aren't any good angry black...
August 17, 2014
A few days ago, a friend of mine expressed disappointment that a preacher many of...
August 14, 2014
I decided to take a picture of the most violent thing I've seen so far...
August 12, 2014
I discovered the Danish Christian existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard my first year in college. He...
August 10, 2014
The lectionary reading for this week is the familiar story of Jesus walking across the...
August 08, 2014
The latest thing conservative evangelicals on social media are getting excited about and sharing around...
August 07, 2014
If there's one thing that defines our era, it's the way that people like to...
August 05, 2014
My sons wanted to tell spooky stories last night. Isaiah went first, then Matthew, then...
August 01, 2014
This video was recorded in Tel Aviv by Ha'aertz journalist Haim Har-Zahav. The lyrics of...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
This picture is a renegade chamomile plant that came up through a crack in our...
July 22, 2014
We live in a world that loves to draw lines between "us" and "them." This...
July 20, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, Brian Zahnd preached a sermon on the healing of Naaman...
July 18, 2014
Children get in the way. It's what they do. My children get in my way...
July 15, 2014
Today's Daily Office reading included two verses from a psalm that comprise an awesome prayer...
July 13, 2014
In this week's lectionary epistle reading, Paul writes that "by sending his own Son in...
July 13, 2014
I remember a few years ago when Facebook was young, people used to play a...
July 10, 2014
There's a new meme on twitter called #jadapose. A girl named Jada was at a...
July 09, 2014
A West Virginia woman named Holly Fisher stirred up a social media storm with her...
July 07, 2014
I've been dragging my heels on writing this post because referring to God as a...
July 05, 2014
I've been meditating on two things that my brother Jonathan Martin said during our rave...

June 2014

June 29, 2014
One of the most toxic things that happens in our social media world is the...
June 26, 2014
There's a wonky term that gets thrown around a lot among Christian educators called "moralistic...
June 25, 2014
We've been having a stimulating conversation at the campus ministry summer institute at Candler School...
June 24, 2014
One of the things that grieves me about the social media era is the way...
June 23, 2014
Despite the fact that I've been pretty vocal on my blog about LGBT issues, I...
June 22, 2014
Yesterday, my colleague Tom Berlin put forward a motion to postpone the resolution that had...
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