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September 2016

September 05, 2016
Judging our faithfulness by looking at our consumption.
September 04, 2016
What we need is for God to remember.
September 01, 2016
We only get peace when we believe there is enough.

August 2016

August 30, 2016
When the Lectionary gives you contradictory pictures of God, slavery, and hating parents all on...
August 26, 2016
What if the fruit of lips that confess Jesus as Lord isn't the words we...
August 18, 2016
The story of Sodom depicts the greatest threat to the church today.
August 17, 2016
Reimagining praise of God and escaping the prayer Olympics.
August 15, 2016
Hope that we are becoming better as "they" become "us."
August 13, 2016
There is enough—but how do we believe that and live that as a people?
August 11, 2016
Making a claim for Jesus that is a hundred times more scandalous than his divinity.
August 10, 2016
With God's summoning us to justice there is a warning for deaf ears.
August 09, 2016
We miss God precisely where we are most confident that we can find him.
August 08, 2016
Is the Bible too particular and specific to give us a meaningful spirituality?
August 04, 2016
I want a world led by the blessed peacemakers.
August 01, 2016
What any of us think about God beforehand is the single greatest determining factor in...

July 2016

July 11, 2016
Last week I announced that I have come on board with Newbigin House of Studies...

June 2016

June 24, 2016
Our votes underscore the need for wisdom in an age of fear.
June 21, 2016
Can we accept the idea that the limits of something might be part of its...
June 13, 2016
The Orlando night club shooting shows us that we need a better story: one where...
June 11, 2016
The Gospels are a latent power, waiting to explode our preconceptions of what Christianity must...
June 08, 2016
There are facts. And then there are the stories we tell about the facts. Perhaps...
June 04, 2016
Called to Community questions our normal and summons us to a better way of following...
June 02, 2016
The gift of an election cycle in which there are no political messiahs.

May 2016

May 12, 2016
Gordon College accused of retaliating against LGBTQ-Supporting Professor
May 10, 2016
No, God does not have sex. But gender?

April 2016

April 29, 2016
For some people the only thing that matters is being right. People like me.
April 25, 2016
In my previous post I issued a strong warning against allowing the church's "rule of...
April 22, 2016
The rule of faith colonizes the Bible--silencing its own ancient voice as well as the...
April 19, 2016
"Who can forgive sins but God alone?" --Scribes "You mean besides John the Baptist?" --Mark
April 15, 2016
When I was in a conservative Presbyterian denomination there was never the Lord's Supper observed...
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