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February 2014

February 11, 2014
This weekend, I had the perfect setup for a stereotypical social justice Christian sermon. I...
February 10, 2014
God spoke to me this weekend through some loving criticism I got about my blog...
February 07, 2014
So I went to the Facebook United Methodist Clergy page yesterday with the question of...
February 06, 2014
During the past week, there have been a lot of stories in the news about...
February 05, 2014
It should come as no surprise that arch-fundamentalist Al Mohler went all in with a...
February 05, 2014
Scot McKnight had a very interesting post last week concerning a recently popular"scapegoat" atonement theory...
February 04, 2014
Sometimes we get burned when we think we're doing the right thing. This happened to...
February 03, 2014
There are two obnoxious tendencies that many people seem to fall into quite naturally. The...
February 03, 2014
The 1999 film Magnolia is perhaps my favorite movie of all time. It's about a...

January 2014

January 31, 2014
It may seem like a nonsensical distinction but I think it makes all the difference...
January 28, 2014
A group of nuns called the Little Sisters of the Poor are in the news...
January 27, 2014
The past several years of my life have been building up to a three and...
January 27, 2014
A week ago Sunday evening, we looked at the story of Adam and Eve as...
January 26, 2014
Last Sunday morning, I preached on Jesus' statement "I am the bread of life." I...
January 24, 2014
I've been reading an interview with outspoken atheist comedian Bill Maher in the Atlantic. The...
January 23, 2014
There are few things that make me smack my head more than the idea that...
January 22, 2014
In the blogosphere, the key to building a platform is to make other people think...
January 21, 2014
A woman from my church gave me a bunch of spiritual books because she was...
January 20, 2014
For Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to consider a very challenging quote from black...
January 17, 2014
I've been reading two books recently that have me really wondering what to do with...
January 16, 2014
Last weekend, I preached on wrestling with the Bible. We looked at the Tower of...
January 15, 2014
It made me really sad and a little bit frightened to read about the latest...
January 13, 2014
Thanks very much for your responses to my last post on Biblical inerrancy. Though some...
January 11, 2014
This weekend, we will be wrestling with what it means for the Bible to be...
January 09, 2014
I knew I was going to read something that would rankle me in RC Sproul's...
January 08, 2014
At the basilica's Monday mass, the epistle reading was from 1 John 4, which includes:...
January 06, 2014
In my sermon this weekend, I preached about Moses' encounter with God at the burning...
January 06, 2014
Leviticus 10:10 says, "You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between...
January 05, 2014
The amnesia of America culture always fascinates me particularly with regard to the things that...
January 03, 2014
The Institute of Religion and Democracy just published a letter from a retired professor Walter...
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