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April 2013

April 19, 2013
I pray a lot for the college kids from our church. In addition to the...
April 18, 2013
Since the gun debate is back in the news, I figured I would pull this...
April 17, 2013
One of my favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd songs is "Mr. Saturday Night Special." The US Senate's...
April 17, 2013
If you want to know who God is really angry at, maybe you should read...
April 17, 2013
A friend of mine who recently had a major shift in his theology wrote the...
April 16, 2013
I was recently made aware of a debate going on in the neo-reformed Gospel Coalition...
April 16, 2013
Well it's Tuesday but it's still my Monday Merton for the week since I like...
April 14, 2013
I've got issues with how people talk about heaven. It bothers me that the most...
April 14, 2013
In the wake of the amazing Missio Alliance conference, I wanted to continue to wrestle...
April 13, 2013
People hate each other for all kinds of sinful reasons. In my life, I've hated...
April 12, 2013
Amos Yong at the Missio Alliance talked today about "the phenemonology of interruption" in Pentecost....
April 12, 2013
Rachel Held Evans just wrote a very honest and humble piece about wrestling with the...
April 11, 2013
I'm at the Missio Alliance conference. Just heard Scot McKnight talk about the distinction between...
April 11, 2013
This spring has been a difficult one for me as a gardener. My peppers have...
April 11, 2013
When I was a child in the eighties, I remember having a conversation with my...
April 10, 2013
I listen to a Christian hipster podcast called Homebrewed Christianity. They were recently part of...
April 10, 2013
Almost since its beginning, Christianity has had a complicated relationship with the teachings of the...
April 08, 2013
I had a powerful encounter with today's Daily Office reading. The gospel reading was John...
April 08, 2013
I'm going to start spending Mondays on my blog with Thomas Merton since I've been...
April 08, 2013
We've just started a sermon series in the spirit of Easter called Rewrite in which...
April 07, 2013
Yesterday I talked about Christian mansplainers who operate according to 18th century principles of epistemology....
April 06, 2013
Hey friends, so I'm going to do a series on most contentious Bible verses and...
April 06, 2013
I witnessed a conversation on facebook last night where one of these young, restless, well...
April 05, 2013
I've just started reading James KA Smith's new book Imagining the Kingdom. Smith's basic argument...
April 04, 2013
One of the litmus tests that evangelicals make when we evaluate a potential church family...
April 02, 2013
A few months ago, a friend wrote a blog asking whether the teachings of Henri...
April 01, 2013
Yesterday I experienced a new first: the first time somebody has made up an email...
April 01, 2013
It was really good to take a break for Lent. I did a lot of...

March 2013

March 31, 2013
Today is Easter. It's also Cesar Chavez's birthday. Google decided to put Cesar Chavez's face...
March 24, 2013
There's an elephant in the room when we talk about the cross. The cross is...
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