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May 2012

May 15, 2012
Matt Drudge has made me (through his frequent links) a regular reader of the Daily...

April 2012

April 23, 2012
Note: This is a special essay in memory of Chuck Colson, not the usual "fragment."...
April 17, 2012
With all the talk in Christian circles about the calling and forming of leaders, you...
April 16, 2012
Changes are afoot at Patheos.com -- at the Evangelical Portal -- and at Philosophical Fragments....
April 12, 2012
On Tuesday I posted Part 1 ("When Jesus is Everything, There's Nothing to Fear") of...
April 12, 2012
I'm hoping to start using this blog not only for full-length commentary posts, but for...
April 10, 2012
I had a fascinating phone conversation with Tullian Tchividjian a few weeks ago.  I could...
April 10, 2012
I'm delighted today to have a guest post from my friend, Josh Good: * *...
April 09, 2012
In a post last week, I wrote: "Training the body is, or can be, a profound...

March 2012

March 30, 2012
After so much talk of uniting Americans and promoting civility and overcoming our political polarization,...
March 29, 2012
Isn't it degrading to suggest that God cares about sports?  Isn't that anthropomorphizing?  Are we,...
March 22, 2012
Some of you already know the reason why I haven't posted to the blog in...

February 2012

February 17, 2012
What's wrong with the Romney campaign?  Even amongst its supporters, it's a common question.  Romney's...
February 14, 2012
I think we bloggers and writers of online content generally need to confess to something....
February 12, 2012
Two of the finest people I've come to know through my work with Patheos are...
February 11, 2012
My recent post on NBA insta-celebrity Jeremy Lin -- "Jeremy Lin and the Soft Bigotry...
February 06, 2012
Sometimes compliments are the worst insults. In early 2010, back when he was a Harvard...
February 03, 2012
Dear friends, I want to tell you about something very important to me -- and...
February 01, 2012
A friend asked me whether I cared to defend Mitt Romney today, given his (in...

January 2012

January 31, 2012
The property battle between denominational bodies and the local churches that disaffiliate from them is...
January 31, 2012
Dear Mr Romney, We've only met once, but we have mutual friends -- and in the...
January 19, 2012
We all know the outlines of the story.  Alarmed by the increasing likelihood that Mitt...
January 19, 2012
Is ending the Rick Perry campaign the smartest thing the Rick Perry campaign has done?...
January 12, 2012
As we've reached the two-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, yesterday we published a reflection...
January 10, 2012
As I mentioned in my last post, I interviewed Rick Santorum some time ago, but...
January 10, 2012
Perhaps it was providential that my hard drive was damaged and I couldn't extract the...
January 09, 2012
1.  Dead Accident Victim to be Sued for Flying Body Parts.  I think that pretty...
January 09, 2012
Sometimes I wish we belonged to the British Commonwealth.  Watching this video was one of...
January 08, 2012
Like megachurches, homeschooling, and Tim Tebow, "Merry Christmas" has become a religio-cultural Rorschach test.  If...
January 04, 2012
Many socially conservative evangelicals in Iowa, concerned about the prospect of a Romney presidency, and...
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