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May 2013

May 29, 2013
[I decided to take a Sabbath from the blog for the rest of my mission...
May 28, 2013
The word jóvenes means the "young people." It basically covers both youth and young adults....
May 27, 2013
I'm pre-loading my Monday Mertons for the next two weeks in my insomnia before leaving...
May 26, 2013
It's Mother's Day here in the Dominican Republic. One of the scripture readings for church...
May 26, 2013
While I'm down here in the Dominican Republic, I've been reading some theology books in...
May 26, 2013
Maureen Glaser and I have come down ahead of our Dominican Republic missions team to...
May 25, 2013
For those of you Jesus nerds who haven't read James K.A. Smith, you need to...
May 25, 2013
I posted recently about the debacle that Tony Jones got into partly because of his...
May 24, 2013
Oh mercy! The evangelicals have so wanted to make peace with the Catholics, because they...
May 24, 2013
It doesn't matter whether Rachel Held Evans took John Piper's tweet about the Oklahoma tornadoes...
May 23, 2013
Agenda-less fellowship. It’s a phrase that’s been stuck in my head recently. I'm not sure...
May 22, 2013
I knew it was coming: the Piper tweet, this time quoting Job in response to...
May 21, 2013
Sometimes you hear songs that only your eyes know how to talk about. I've spent...
May 21, 2013
I preached this past weekend on two songs that seem to be vying for the...
May 20, 2013
The chapter for Monday Merton this week is very apropos. We just started a blogger's...
May 19, 2013
To prepare for Pentecost, I've been reading Pentecostal theologian Amos Yong's The Spirit Poured Out...
May 18, 2013
You may have noticed that an eery looking emblem recently appeared on my blog with...
May 17, 2013
Because I like to go against the grain, I wanted to try to stick up...
May 17, 2013
Several months ago, someone from the United Methodist communications office emailed me to see if...
May 16, 2013
I just came across this video from Nathan Blanc, a 19 year old Israeli who...
May 16, 2013
There has never been a time when somebody in our government was not misbehaving in...
May 15, 2013
The latest theater in the Methodist proxy war over homosexuality has involved attacks here and...
May 14, 2013
I came across the Biblical context of the Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection in yesterday's...
May 14, 2013
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt traces the history of European anti-Semitism through its...
May 13, 2013
I listened to a second podcast today from Company of Burning Hearts, a British charismatic...
May 13, 2013
Today's Monday Merton is a chapter in Thomas Merton's No Man Is An Island that...
May 12, 2013
I preached this weekend about the ascension of Christ. As I shared in a blog...
May 12, 2013
This is a picture of my mom holding my son Isaiah two summers ago. I...
May 11, 2013
In Sophocles' great tragedy Antigone, a civil war has taken place in the city of...
May 11, 2013
So I thought some of you who are tired of my blogomaniac hubris would get...
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