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June 2012

June 05, 2012
The other night, I had a conversation with a fellow member of our church's Dominican...
June 03, 2012
Today I preached at the iglesia evangélica dominicana de Sosua here in the Dominican Republic...

May 2012

May 31, 2012
I've been reading through Stanley Hauerwas' Working with Words. I just read an essay in...
May 30, 2012
One of my favorite things about Stanley Hauerwas is the way he says outlandish, exaggerated...
May 29, 2012
When Christian Smith and Melinda Denton coined the phrase "moralistic therapeutic deism" in 2005, it...
May 29, 2012
There is probably not a more awkward passage for Biblical literalists than the story of...
May 22, 2012
In the information age, people define themselves primarily by their opinions rather than their actual...
May 21, 2012
As I was standing in the checkout line at the grocery store this week, I...
May 18, 2012
The 23rd chapter of Matthew is probably the harshest speech that Jesus ever gave. We...
May 17, 2012
"Go and find out what this means: 'I desire mercy not sacrifice'" (Matthew 9:13). There...
May 17, 2012
"Go and find out what this means: 'I desire mercy not sacrifice'" (Matthew 9:13). There...
May 15, 2012
Change the world. It's such an undifferentiated, macroscopic goal -- the main theme of every...
May 12, 2012
1) She woke me up every morning until I left for college by yanking the...
May 11, 2012
I was surprised to see President Obama take a public stand supporting gay marriage this...
May 10, 2012
Between 1910 and 1915, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles published a twelve volume series...
May 09, 2012
"The wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive,...
May 09, 2012
Sixty percent is a supermajority, who took time out of their busy schedules, who needed...
May 07, 2012
Two weekends ago, our church's men's retreat examined and discussed one of my favorite scripture...
May 03, 2012
In 2 Samuel 12, when Bathsheba's first son was dying, David fasted and clamored with...
May 02, 2012
"We stand united in declaring our faith that God’s grace is available to all ––...
May 01, 2012
“No scripture can mean that God is not love and that His mercy is not...

April 2012

April 29, 2012
For our church's men's retreat this weekend, we read sections from 1 Peter. One of...
April 28, 2012
"All means all." It's a battle-cry that is appropriately Wesleyan. Since we believe in prevenient...
April 27, 2012
Tom Berlin, a pastor and clergy delegate from my conference for whom I have a...
April 26, 2012
First off, I'm aware that I didn't witness what happened tonight in person. Mark Miller,...
April 26, 2012
I've been following the "Call to Action" debate on the twitter feeds from the Methodist...
April 24, 2012
For the past two years at our church's confirmation retreat, I've shared a message based...
April 18, 2012
I've been thinking a lot about John Meunier's question "What would it take for us...
April 17, 2012
Everyone else is writing about the “crisis” of American Christianity so I figured I’d add...
April 14, 2012
When some people talk about taxes and government programs for poor people, they often talk...
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