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March 2012

March 08, 2012

Invisible Children and Kony 2012: Friend or Foe?

A few days ago I posted a video which I called "Possibly the Best Use...

March 07, 2012

Athanasius on the Cross

No conversation on the theology of the Early Church on the Cross would be complete...

March 06, 2012

This is Possibly the Best use of Social Media I Have Ever Encountered

KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

March 06, 2012

How Augustine Viewed the Cross

If Origen’s central concern was God’s desire to unify man to Himself, Augustine’s central concern...

March 05, 2012

How the First Christians Defined Salvation

As you read through the various perspective on the theology of the Cross in among...

March 05, 2012

The Life and Times of Jeremiah “The Weeping Prophet”

Destiny is a strange concept. In all of this there is a deep sense in...

March 04, 2012

My Tattoos

Alright so there is a conversation going on at r/christianity about Tattoos...A number of years...

March 03, 2012

Origen on The Cross

One of the most influential thinkers in the early church was Origen. Although later condemned...

March 02, 2012

The Ancient Understanding of Eucharist

The Christian church followed many of the Greeks in an shift away from the need...

March 01, 2012

Learning to walk in grace

The woods is shining this morning. Red, gold and green, the leaves lie on the...

March 01, 2012

Video: Bible Lesson on Mark 8:27-38

This week I taught this lesson on Mark 8:27-38. I'd love to hear comments!

March 01, 2012

Want a Free Bible?

Want a Free Bible? The Amazon Kindle has you covered If you want to read...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

The Lutheran Insulter

February 29, 2012

Entering Conversations On Race as a White Male

The interview below was conducted as part of a broader project to end racism and...

February 28, 2012

The Liturgy of the Heart

This week a few friends and I looked through Jeremiah 7:1-15. It's a text that...

February 25, 2012

Entrapment: The Biblical Art of Cloak and Dagger Rhetoric

I remember when I was in middle school I had a teacher who began class...

February 23, 2012

Why did Protestants Remove the Apocrapha (Deuterocanonical) Books of the Bible

February 22, 2012

Help Me Give Up Racism for Lent

Giving Up Racism: My ProjectToday marks the beginning of Lent, Ash Wednesday. Every year millions...

February 20, 2012

Where Did the Sign of the Cross Come From?

This Wednesday millions of Christians will gather in churches and receive a cross on their...

February 20, 2012

God ♥’s Religion

There has recently been a good deal of Religion bashing. Slogans like "religion kills" and...

February 14, 2012

Jesus, Aristotle, Courage, and the American Way

Ben Steel talks with Billy Kangas about what it means to be a man of...

February 10, 2012

Why I Need The Saints

Loosing my keys is on my list of top five most frenzy inducing life situations....

February 10, 2012

What is prophecy and how do we recognize it?

Last week I started a debate on facebook about the charismatic movement and it's compatibility with the...

February 07, 2012

How do you understand sacrifice in light of Christ?

Some people today point to a golden era in church history where everyone got along....

February 07, 2012

Why people with masculine gender identity hate going to Church

Over the weekend I read through a book called Why Men Hate Going to Church by David...

February 01, 2012

Is WHERE, WHEN and HOW Jesus died important?

Although the Early Church did not use the cross in the overt and casual way...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

The Shame of The Cross

The cross has become the quintessential symbol for the Christian faith. It’s placed on churches,...

January 28, 2012

Prophet from Poetry

Poetry is a dying art. Few people write it, read it, or would even know...

January 26, 2012

Where I am in life right now… A Picture

In our lives there are many directions we can focus on. In Helen Cepro's Journaling as a...

December 2011

December 12, 2011

Congregational Vitality

One thing I love about the Covenant Church is the Congregational Vitality Program. I think...