Mercy

One way to talk about the tragic division in contemporary American Christianity is to say...

"Go and find out what this means: 'I desire mercy not sacrifice.'" Matthew 9:13 This...

Before Donald Trump became president, he promised that if he were elected, Americans would "win...

On a recent podcast episode with Scot McKnight and Kenneth Tanner, Kenneth made the comment...

Have American Christians become what Jesus came to stop us from being? It’s not an...

My dear friend and podcast-mate Jason Micheli just wrote a very kind review of my...

When I was a Southern Baptist, we used to believe that Methodists didn't read the...

From now until the release of my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us,...

Ashes to Go. It's the latest trend in the mainline Protestant church for celebrating Ash...

Have we become what Jesus came to stop us from being? Many evangelical Christians in...

We don't know exactly what motivated the white terrorist who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic...

Today's Daily Office reading included two verses from a psalm that comprise an awesome prayer...

Our senior pastor Larry Buxton, who's a baseball nut, says that parables are supposed to...

I got an email yesterday from a church member that made my heart swell and...

We've been preaching a sermon series at Burke United Methodist Church called "Love actually" (titled...

Well Pope Francis probably made some more Christians angry this week with a 2500 word...

This past weekend, I got to hear my favorite podcast preacher Jonathan Martin live for...

I have been reading Margaret Farley's Just Love: A Framework for Christian Ethics, the book...

I've often told the story of how I discovered the verse that became the basis...

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "weightier matters of the law"? It...

There's an African folktale that I've read with both of my sons. In the story,...

There's an elephant in the room when we talk about the cross. The cross is...

I was invited to share an occasion when I was surprised by mercy. It was...

Is Jesus saving the world from us? It's a different way to talk about salvation,...

I'm one of the "pod-rishioners" of the popular Michigan pastor Greg Boyd. One thing I...

***Spoiler alert: this post presumes that you know the storyline of Les Miz.*** After watching...

In March, I fasted from blogging for Lent. April and May of 2012 were dominated...

Psalm 52:3 blew my mind yesterday as I was reading it in the Chapel of...

This weekend, I preached on Mary's Magnificat (audio, Luke 1:46-55) at our church in the...

One of the theories Doug Campbell advances in The Deliverance of God is that the...