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April 2012

April 14, 2012
When some people talk about taxes and government programs for poor people, they often talk...
April 13, 2012
Last night, as I was looking at the passage about the year of jubilee in...
April 13, 2012
Last night, as I was looking at the passage about the year of jubilee in...
April 13, 2012
America's most famous megachurch pastor Rick Warren has gotten backlash in the Prospect, Daily Kos,...
April 11, 2012
John Derbyshire's now-infamous article from last week's Taki's Magazine has pretty thoroughly torpedoed any claim...
April 11, 2012
I imagine it's no surprise that a Methodist pastor would consider the dean of the...
April 11, 2012
I imagine it's no surprise that a Methodist pastor would consider the dean of the...
April 09, 2012
The United Methodist Church is about to have a very significant international meeting called the...
April 08, 2012
Let me be honest. Easter is a bittersweet holiday for me as a pastor because...

February 2012

February 21, 2012
This Lent, I have decided to fast from social media and blogging. I wanted to...
February 21, 2012
It continues to blow my mind how timely Brian Zahnd's book Beauty Will Save the...
February 20, 2012
I'm sitting in the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC....
February 18, 2012
Epistemic closure is a recently defined philosophical term that describes someone who is so thoroughly...
February 16, 2012
There's been a lot of talk about religious freedom over the past couple of weeks....
February 12, 2012
Sermon preached 2/11-12/2012 at Burke UMC Text: Matthew 4:1-11 “Lead us not into temptation, but...
February 11, 2012
With all the buzz about Christians being persecuted in the world (real and imagined), I...
February 10, 2012
Normally on Fridays I don't write anything on my blog because I'm hard at work...
February 09, 2012
In protesting the Obama Administration's new decision to treat contraception as preventative medicine, Archbishop Timothy...
February 06, 2012
Sermon preached at Burke United Methodist Church 2/4-5/2012 Text: Matthew 18:21-35 Is everyone familiar with...
February 05, 2012
I've decided to take a risk and share truthfully about a phase in my Christian...
February 04, 2012
I've got some prophetic fire that I need to let out so I'm going to...
February 02, 2012
It’s very easy to write a mediocre sermon about forgiveness. I’m already halfway down the...
February 01, 2012
The second chapter of Beauty Will Save the World is about rediscovering the concept of...

January 2012

January 31, 2012
The title of Brian Zahnd's brand new book Beauty Will Save the World is taken...
January 29, 2012
Sermon preached at Burke UMC LifeSign service 1/28/2012 Text: Exodus 16 I’ve got a daily...
January 25, 2012
The latest blogosphere controversy involving Mark Driscoll concerns the church discipline practices at his church...
January 24, 2012
My prayer life sucks! There, I admitted it. I don't pray nearly enough. I even...
January 22, 2012
I'm worried about our country. A few years ago, I read a book  called The...
January 21, 2012
Any of you who have read my blog before know that I place a lot...
January 19, 2012
Latest development in the love/hate religion/Jesus controversy: Catholic priest rapper Father Pontifex has a banging,...
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