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May 10, 2013
The idolatry of the mission statement
A facebook friend shared this meme. It's scary how perfectly it captures a phenomenon in...
May 09, 2013
Why suburbia is bad for the kingdom: a response to Mere Orthodoxy
Postmodern thinkers sometimes settle for deconstructing the motives of their critics instead of making defensible...
May 09, 2013
The Ascension: Did Jesus leave us to fight the Empire on our own?
It's probably the most poignant scene in the original Star Wars movie. Obi-Wan has engaged...
May 08, 2013
Eternity is living in the moment
It sounds like an ignorant hippie thing to say and the greatest possible contradiction. Eternity...
May 07, 2013
God’s Pentecost vs. my cynicism
God broke me today in a really good way. You see I'm a recovering cynic...
May 06, 2013
Christian man-feminism: allies and misogynists
Recently I've found myself called into conversation with the new evangelical feminist movement that has...
May 06, 2013
Monday Merton 5.6.13
I'm pretty exhausted from having had two retreats back to back this weekend and preparing...
May 05, 2013
The kings of the Earth and the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:24)
The lectionary reading for last week was taken from Revelation 21-22 which describes the New...
May 04, 2013
How does Paul define sin? (Romans 14:13-23)
The Daily Office reading for today was Romans 14:13-23. I was particularly struck by verses...
May 03, 2013
Why I would fail Michael and Debi Pearl’s parenting class
I read a very disturbing post on Patheos by a woman named Libby Anne who...
May 03, 2013
Is Guantanamo Bay as far as the east is from the west?
Do you think these human beings matter to God? They certainly don't matter much to...
May 02, 2013
Jonathan Martin’s Prototype: Salvation as the Restoration of Humanity
It's a strange and beautiful thing to hear someone preaching your own thoughts in a...
May 02, 2013
The incomplete jigsaw puzzle of Biblical interpretation (Christian Smith)
The 2nd century Gnostic heretics were very good at constructing airtight, scripture-based arguments for their...
May 01, 2013
Please pray for my buddy Vincent!
Vincent Alexander was like any other kindergartener at Orange Grove Elementary School a month ago....
May 01, 2013
Worldviewism and the nature of truth
I had an outbreak of worldviewism today on my Facebook page today after I shared...
April 2013
April 30, 2013
Privilege and Biblical interpretation
This is a post where I'm raising a question that I flat-out don't know the...
April 29, 2013
An idea: smoking hot sermons from on-fire preacherwomen
So I got an idea of a way to turn the "smoking hot wife" meme...
April 29, 2013
Get out of the boat! (Be bold like Peter)
This weekend we continued Burke UMC's Rewrite series on how God rewrites the lives of...
April 28, 2013
My wife is not a rotisserie chicken or a leaky faucet
Complementarian megachurch pastors are like pitchers who only throw 40 mile an hour change-ups. It...
April 27, 2013
Cut government spending, except when I have to wait in line
A number of people in my church have been impacted by the game of chicken...
April 26, 2013
752 and the messianic longing of Scandal
Since my wife is addicted to Scandal, I watched it with her last night while...
April 25, 2013
What does the blood of Jesus actually do?
A basic principle of Christianity is that Jesus died on the cross for our sins....
April 25, 2013
Bob Edgar: A Christian for the Common Good (1943-2013)
He always had a joke for the pastor in the handshake line, often a slapstick...
April 24, 2013
How does a Wesleyan deal with predestination and election?
My favorite preacher Jonathan Martin covered Romans 8 a couple of weekends ago in his...
April 23, 2013
Does Victoria’s Secret have a better anthropology than the church?
After I got James K.A. Smith's new book Imagining the Kingdom, several of you suggested...
April 22, 2013
Why I clash with the gatekeepers
I often clash with the gatekeepers of Christian orthodoxy. I'm sure that I get under...
April 22, 2013
Monday Merton 4.22.2013
I overslept this morning and I need to get out to my lake to walk...
April 21, 2013
Don’t stop immigration reform over the Boston bombing!
I knew it was coming. The lunatics in the outrage industrial complex are out in...
April 20, 2013
So what about other religions?
We've been having a very stimulating conversation at our confirmation retreat that has completely derailed...
April 20, 2013
Defining sin for adolescents
I'm on our church's confirmation retreat. For the last three years, we've framed our retreat...
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