Ja Rule. TobyMac. Stephen Baldwin. Need I say more? Apparently the writers of I’m In Love With A Church Girl didn’t feel the need to say anymore either because wow. The dialogue in the trailer?? I mean seriously. Are Christian films like this under some legal obligation to have the worst, cheesiest, stalest dialogue ever?? “This guy is the biggest drug dealer in all of California which is exactly why we want to nail this guy.” Come on, Stephen Baldwin,... Read more

Thank you Stephanie Drury for reminding me that Jesus was the puurrrfect sacrifice for our sins. Read more

This is the tenth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   There are many days when I find myself teetering on the brink of, if not atheism, then at least a strong agnosticism. Ironically, it’s a strong faith that leads me here more often than doubt. Sure, there are times... Read more

Do you love Jesus? And Star Wars? And have $30 laying around burning a hole in your pocket? If so, This Is Why I’m Broke has just the thing for you….   Thanks to my friend Michael for the heads up on this! Read more

Right about the time the first person declared “There is a God!”, one of his friends spoke up and said, “Oh yeah? Well, if there is a God why does he let bad things happen?” That question has haunted religion ever since, especially faiths like Christianity which claim that despite all the evidence God is in fact a good and loving God. It’s often referred to as “the problem of evil,” “the problem of pain,” or simply “Are you kidding... Read more

The great Meatloaf once sang “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.” Well, that pretty much sums up my thoughts on putting on a blue dress and moving to Siberia to live with “Jesus.” Reincarnated Jesus’ Secluded Siberian Sect By Atlas Obscura, Slate.com Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop is also known as Vissarion. Born on Jan. 14, 1961, he has a beard, flowing robes, and claims to be the son of God. Vissarion worked as a traffic policeman... Read more

This is the ninth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   A couple of weeks ago in my post on what I believe God can and cannot do, I mentioned a scene from the book The Last Battle. If you recall, in the scene a group of dwarfs are huddled... Read more

This is the eighth part of a series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   There are a lot of things we don’t like to talk about in the church. Always have been, always will be. These taboo topics tend to shift with the cultural sands. Things that once were taboo eventually become acceptable... Read more

(H/T) I had to stay away from Twitter and Facebook this weekend. To be honest, I couldn’t handle the never ending posts, comments, links, denunciations, pseudo-insights, and outrage coming from both sides of the George Zimmerman verdict. Not because I’m better than that. I couldn’t handle them because it was like looking in a mirror I couldn’t turn away from. When I heard Zimmerman was going to walk I was dumbstruck. At the very least l thought he would be... Read more

This is the seventh part of a new series I’m calling Blogmatics. It’s an attempt on my part to lay out as best I can in as brief a manner as I can all the theological assumptions behind my blog posts.   What is the church? Is it a building? Is it the people? Is it an institution? I remember back in my youth group days we all used to get fired up about this question. “The church isn’t a... Read more