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September 2013

September 18, 2013
We've been preaching a sermon series at Burke United Methodist Church called "Love actually" (titled...
September 17, 2013
The gospel reading at my Monday mass was Luke 7:1-10, the story of the centurion...
September 14, 2013
Well Pope Francis probably made some more Christians angry this week with a 2500 word...
September 13, 2013
Today is Yom Kippur, Judaism's day of atonement. It's a day for fasting, repentance, and...
September 12, 2013
Galatians 5:20 says that the works of the sinful nature include "enmities, strife, jealousy, anger,...
September 11, 2013
I had two very different conversations on my comment threads yesterday with people who disagreed...
September 10, 2013
I really don't know what to say. Victims of domestic violence probably shouldn't read this...
September 09, 2013
I'm hoping to write this in a vague enough way so as not to call...
September 07, 2013
[Guest-post from fellow Virginia UMC pastor Jason Micheli: please check out his blog Tamed Cynic!]...
September 06, 2013
American politicians are eager to use the Catholic church when it comes to certain topics...
September 05, 2013
Normally I don't see much of a point in engaging fundamentalist Christian entities like the...
September 04, 2013
Please forgive me for mentioning the name Miley Cyrus again. In a recent MTV interview,...
September 03, 2013
After reading a blog post by my brother Micah Murray, I decided to check out...
September 02, 2013
Does everyone have the right to work? It seems like a good question for Labor...
September 02, 2013
I've been reading a book called You are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier, a...
September 01, 2013
I figured I would start doing a weekly post on things I've read during the...

August 2013

August 30, 2013
"The White Man's Burden" was a poem written by a British poet Rupyard Kipling in...
August 28, 2013
You can't say the N word anymore. You get sued if you racially discriminate in...
August 27, 2013
Last weekend's sermon was on 2 Timothy 4 where Paul gives Timothy advice for how...
August 27, 2013
No, Will Smith and his family weren't actually watching Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke grind...
August 26, 2013
"He has chosen the lowly things of this world: the despised ones and those who...
August 25, 2013
Sometime in the last couple of weeks, I got wind of the John Howard Yoder...
August 23, 2013
It's a total fluke that I'm at #6 on a top Christian blogs list. I...
August 23, 2013
I imagine that I'll draw some more trolls who are "concerned" about my lust for...
August 23, 2013
I got concern-trolled on my Jesus juke blog post yesterday by an anonymous commenter who...
August 22, 2013
I did a funeral today for a woman who was a member of our church...
August 21, 2013
The phrase "Jesus juke" was originally coined by Jon Acuff in a 2010 post on...
August 20, 2013
In the American justice system, all defendants are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable...
August 19, 2013
I've been thinking a lot lately about the disconnect between our public posturing as Christians...
August 18, 2013
It's probably not best practice for a preacher to say this publicly, but my sermon...
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