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January 2013

January 27, 2013
My friend Bram gave me an epiphany today. I asked him what I should do...
January 27, 2013
We had the first session of our new member class today. During the first class,...
January 27, 2013
We had the first session of our new member class today. During the first class,...
January 25, 2013
I found a direct application that fleshes out a little better what I stumbled through...
January 24, 2013
After witnessing several exchanges here and here and here regarding blogosphere dramas around Phyllis Tickle...
January 24, 2013
Kayal ta-arog al afike mayim is how you write "As the deer panteth for the...
January 23, 2013
The Daily Office epistle for today was Galatians 2:11-21. In it, Paul talks about his...
January 22, 2013
There's something attractive about Mark Driscoll to Methodists in a Clint Eastwood (pre-chair-incident) kind of...
January 21, 2013
Well it's not a line item on our church budget called "Pastor family planning fund"...
January 21, 2013
With it being Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, we preached on justice as our sermon...
January 20, 2013
I'm one of the "pod-rishioners" of the popular Michigan pastor Greg Boyd. One thing I...
January 18, 2013
I'm not going to argue whether or not you should forgive Lance Armstrong or not...
January 17, 2013
Some of you know that I hate living in suburgatory. I love the friends that...
January 17, 2013
I’ve been reading Thomas Merton’s The Ascent to Truth while on retreat here at Richmond...
January 15, 2013
On many movie DVD’s, there is an option to watch the film with a running...
January 12, 2013
I had an interesting twitter conversation today with a Christian feminist blogger named Dianna Anderson...
January 12, 2013
I just read a chapter in Adam Kotsko's Politics of Redemption which engages feminist critiques...
January 11, 2013
When the outrage industrial complex tried to make Jeremiah Wright into the bogeyman who would...
January 10, 2013
The second testimony I wanted to engage claims that religious people are "too hooked on...
January 10, 2013
I put aside my original sin blog series idea for a while, but I'm preaching...
January 09, 2013
We're starting a sermon series this weekend called "Spiritual not religious." I've been a little...
January 08, 2013
Isaiah 61 was the Daily Office Old Testament reading for today. Some of you will...
January 07, 2013
Our youth pastor invited me today to talk about atonement with our confirmation class. As you...
January 06, 2013
The Church of England decided this week to allow gay men who are in civil...
January 04, 2013
This is kind of an open question to my readers. I got called out a...
January 04, 2013
On the same day that Jon Acuff wrote a self-affirmation about his success as a...
January 03, 2013
Today celebrity Christian blogger Jon Acuff posted a note to his "haters," which I guess...
January 03, 2013
The Daily Office New Testament reading for today, Hebrews 11:1-11, includes a common proof-text for...
January 02, 2013
I tend to be nonplussed as a matter of principle about patriotic piety over dead...
January 01, 2013
I'm in a holiday post-partum kind of mood. I made two trance songs about it...
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