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April 2017

April 20, 2017

Director, Animator, Author Kelly Asbury

Animated feature films have been around since “Snow White,” but they’ve changed dramatically. How do...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

Was the Tree of Knowledge the First Baptism?

Author and Theologian Leonard Sweet says that everything in the bible ultimately points back to...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

No More “Far Away” and Belly Button Death

This is a different Homebrewed CultureCast show this week. First of all, apologies for the...

December 09, 2015

Daddy, What Does a Dead Body Look Like?

We got the call Thursday night and were on a plane from Portland to New...

December 01, 2015

Dad, Why Can’t We Just Kill Them?

Read my follow-up piece written the next day about ISIS HERE. My twelve-year-old son posed...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

Does Religion Make Our Kids – and Us – Jerks?

There's a well-known phenomenon in churches where young families, many of whom have not been...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Does a Doctrine of Hell Justify Killing Children?

I've written a great deal about hell. I even debated a theology professor from Western...

August 04, 2015

No One is Pro-Abortion (and Few are Fully Pro-Life)

I'm not the only one who is frustrated with, and even a little bit exhausted...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Five Reasons We Take Our Kids to Gay Pride

The Gay Pride parade in Portland, Oregon is not only a family-friendly event; it's a...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

Explaining “Working Poor” to my Privileged, Middle Class Children

For my privileged, perhaps overly comfortable children, something as trivial as our internet being down...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

How Generosity Goes Viral (A Five-for-One Deal) #Feeding5000 #MyJesusProject

"Woah," Mattias' eyes bulged when he walked in and saw the red mountain bike, sitting...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

Be Afraid! The New Threat to Christianity is Communism

I get a lot of weird stuff in my email inbox. I'm sure all of...

August 2014

August 24, 2014

Church Signs, “Michael Brown” Edition

July 2014

July 03, 2014

Protect Your Daughters; Turn Them Into Corporations

It’s been suggested that the recent Supreme Court decision involving Hobby Lobby’s resistance to provide...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

GO: The Biggest Word in the Great Commission

Our son, Mattias, is a complicated kid. He’s sweet, creative and remarkably intelligent. But to...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

Lobster Hands, World Vision and Raising Babies (CultureCast)

Jess the Intern and Philip the Page show off their costuming skills for Zoe’s play,...

April 15, 2014

Four Reasons Men Need Paternity Leave

I was saddened, but not entirely surprised, by the response New York Mets second baseman...

January 2014

January 02, 2014

Five Things That Will Shock Our Grandkids About Us

I’m a big fan of the TV show Mad Men, which takes place in the midst of...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

Five Ways to De-Commercialize Christmas

We've created a Christmas monster: a grotesque assemblage of pagan, Christian and capitalist symbolism into...

December 10, 2013

Sandy Hook and the Endurance of Love

This week marks a year since the nearly incomprehensible school shootings in Newtown, Conn. Gaping...

December 06, 2013

How Financial Guru Dave Ramsey Missed the Mark

I love Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace coursework. It put our family on stable financial footing...

November 2013

November 02, 2013

Bring on the Running, Bring on the Waiting

This was written by a friend of mine, Sunny Buchanan Ridings. I am sharing for...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Be Annoying for God

This is part of a weekly bible study called Heretic's Guide to the Bible. To...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

10 Myths About the Food Stamp Program (Which Congress is Trying to Gut)

About a year ago, I wrote about my family participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Challenge,...

September 05, 2013

Miley Cyrus’ Contribution to Feminism

Ever since the most recent Video Music Awards show aired, there has been a breathless...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Jesus Found My Wallet!

Following is excerpted from my more extensive Heretic's Guide to the Bible weekly lectionary study....

July 15, 2013

A White Pastor’s Miracle in Trayvon Martin’s Church

A thousand things ran through my mind when the news broke Saturday night about George...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

The Dangers of Christian “Marriage Worship”

I've written before about the seemingly contrasting messages we offer to young people in church...

May 18, 2013

Five Questions with Sarah Thebarge, Author of “The Invisible Girls”

Sarah Thebarge is the author of The Invisible Girls, a new memoir from Jericho Books. I was...

May 16, 2013

The Absurdity of Legislating Sexual Morality

I used to joke that there was a glaring, if not largely ignored, loophole in...