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April 2014

April 30, 2014
John Kerry got in trouble. His crime, as Israeli columnist Noam Sheifaz put it, was...
April 29, 2014
Sarah Palin told a recent crowd at an NRA rally that "if [she] were in...
April 28, 2014
One of the best things that I've read about the drama surrounding cranky racist white...
April 26, 2014
There's been a lot of conversation about the Supreme Court ruling to end affirmative action...
April 25, 2014
At the Festival for Faith and Writing two weekends ago, I went to a poetry...
April 24, 2014
Fellow Methodist pastor Evan Rohrs-Dodge wrote a very legitimate post recently pointing out the distinction...
April 22, 2014
The religion blog forum Patheos is hosting a Public Square conversation called "Has Capitalism Failed?"...
April 21, 2014
Sharia law. The name conjures up images of barbaric practices like stoning women for adultery...
April 20, 2014
Since today is Easter, I've been trying to think of something inspiring to say. But...
April 09, 2014
In one of Jesus' famous parables, he says, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's; give...
April 01, 2014
In week four of LifeSign's "Jesus vs. the Pharisees" series, we look at a key...

March 2014

March 24, 2014
Let's say you're a rabbi in 1st century Palestine, and you've heard of this really...
March 19, 2014
Our LifeSign "Jesus vs. the Pharisees" sermon series continued last weekend with their debate about...
March 12, 2014
I've decided to keep the sermon podcast going for Lent. We are doing a sermon...
March 05, 2014
One of the most important and often neglected threads of the gospel stories of Jesus...
March 05, 2014
This was the final sermon of our Wrestling series a couple of weekends ago. We...
March 04, 2014
There's a movement within United Methodism called "Biblical Obedience" whose name itself is offensive to...
March 03, 2014
I think that the reason many Christians can't understand each other, particularly with regard to...

February 2014

February 28, 2014
At this Wednesday night's Ecclesia National Gathering plenary session, Mandy Smith used a great metaphor...
February 26, 2014
I've been enjoying the stimulating conversation at the Ecclesia National Gathering in DC. Scot McKnight...
February 25, 2014
I've been at the Ecclesia National Gathering in DC. It's a network of moderate evangelicals...
February 23, 2014
I keep on getting busy and forgetting to post my sermon podcasts. Last weekend, for...
February 22, 2014
One of the main reasons that many Christians fall short who are earnestly seeking to...
February 21, 2014
A few months ago, First Things ran a post critiquing emergenty evangelicals like me for...
February 19, 2014
My friend Matthew Paul Turner shared a page from the coloring book Steven Furtick has...
February 19, 2014
[The following is a guest post from Lindsey and Sarah who describe themselves as a...
February 18, 2014
David Brooks has done it again. This time he wrote a column about how America's...
February 17, 2014
Jamie Coots, the snake-handling Kentucky pastor who starred in the National Geographic reality show "Snake...
February 13, 2014
Jesus says some pretty wild things, but this week's lectionary reading includes one of his...
February 12, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, at Wheaton College, a very interesting dialogue happened. The campus...
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