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February 2018

February 14, 2018
It's Ash Wednesday which means it's time for that new practice that makes the liturgical...
February 13, 2018
If you have not yet seen the interview with Iranian-American blogger Hoda Katebi on Chicago's...
February 10, 2018
Ten years ago, in one of the earliest viral Youtube videos, comedian and vlogger Chris...

January 2018

January 27, 2018
It's taken me some time to respond to the latest attack on women in the...
January 25, 2018
For the past several decades, it has been taboo for white people to make disparaging...
January 16, 2018
In the 1999 film Magnolia, Tom Cruise plays professional misogynist self-help guru Frank "T.J." Mackie...
January 12, 2018
This Sunday I will preach the kickoff sermon of the spring semester at my campus...
January 09, 2018
The folks at Desiring God decided to go edgy with a recent blog post where...
January 03, 2018
Donald Trump has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong Un. And our global politics...

December 2017

December 31, 2017
Well it's time again to share the top blog posts over the past year. I'm...
December 30, 2017
One of the most fascinating and wonderful mysteries that I've experienced in ministry is the...
December 29, 2017
My next conversation is with Sandhya Rani Jha, the director of the Oakland Peace Center...
December 28, 2017
My Facebook friend Lee Wyatt has written a book called The Incredible Shrinking Gospel about the...
December 22, 2017
As I wrote in a previous post, watching Star Wars VIII was a very spiritual...
December 21, 2017
Jesus didn't come primarily to solve the economic, political, and social problems of the world....
December 17, 2017
When I first met Jason Micheli in the fall of 1996 at UVA's First Year...
December 16, 2017
I've decided to start doing author interviews on Facebook messenger in lieu of doing book...
December 15, 2017
Watching Star Wars Episode 8 last night was an incredibly spiritual experience for me. I...
December 14, 2017
I was originally going to write something about Roy Moore and the 81% of white...
December 08, 2017
I have apparently siloed myself from the evangelical end-timers enough not to see the triumphalist...

November 2017

November 30, 2017
"Togetherness in Bed," rt69, Flickr C.C. This week, I decided to go through former Archbishop...
November 28, 2017
Since it's #GivingTuesday and non-profits across the country are mobilizing to raise money, I wanted...
November 27, 2017
The day before Thanksgiving, I went to a used bookstore in Sulphur Springs, Texas. It...
November 15, 2017
For the past several months, the nation of Australia has been locked in a bitter...
November 14, 2017
In an interview with the Religion News Service about alleged pedophile and Alabama Senate candidate...
November 09, 2017
It really is starting to feel like something supernatural and apocalyptic is at foot in...
November 01, 2017
Apparently there is a national movement started by white nationalists in the netherworld of 4chan...

October 2017

October 31, 2017
I got to spend the weekend that marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation...
October 22, 2017
I'm not a woman. That means that misogynist ex-pastor Mark Driscoll's words do not violate...
October 19, 2017
Every other summer, my family goes to visit my wife's cousin on his ranch in...
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