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May 2013

May 15, 2013

Tales of a Male “Preacher’s Wife”

(This is excerpted from my full article featured this month in Sojourners Magazine and on...

May 07, 2013

Rights, Power, Sexuality and the Church

I found an interesting pair of articles on Huffington Post's religion page today. First, there...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

Talking to My Son About Boston

I woke up this morning, like everyone else, to the news of a shootout with...

April 04, 2013

Jimmy Carter vs. the SBC/Driscoll/Victoria’s Secret: A Sea Change?

Jimmy Carter offered an open letter a few years back (republished this week by Women's...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Photo from Steubenville: I am More Important Than Football

I thought about blogging on the systemic brokenness behind how we deify sports at the...

March 18, 2013

Five Questions From the Steubenville Rape Case

(Note: This post contains some frank and graphic discussions of sex and sexuality.) Two boys...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Why are Priests Really Celibate? (and Will it Change with a New Pope?)

There's all matter of speculation about why Pope Benedict is stepping down, especially since he's...

February 27, 2013

Dad of Divas: The Interview

I did an interview recently for a parenting blog called www.DadofDivas.com. They have a feature called...

February 01, 2013

I’m an A-hole Dad

(From my memoir, PregMANcy: A Dad, a Little Dude and a Due Date, on faith, fatherhood...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Is Gender Equality Killing Women?

I consider myself a feminist, which means (to me at least) I support the elimination...

January 12, 2013

Reframing the Basis of Marriage with Gary Thomas

(I was asked to read and reflect on Gary Thomas' new book, "The Sacred Search:...

January 11, 2013

A Down Economy’s Silver Lining for Men

I was a nervous kid. Once, I got so freaked out by the prospect of...

January 08, 2013

Cut for Bieber: How Did We Get Here?

The ever-reliable and scrupulous news outlet TMZ recently publicized a photo featuring Justin Bieber with...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Pastor Terry Jones is No Match for the Beatles’ LOVE

Many will remember pastor Terry Jones as the champion of the "Burn a Quran Day"...

December 17, 2012

Five Children’s Questions About the Sandy Hook Tragedy

I've seen plenty of articles responding to the shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Some are...

November 2012

November 07, 2012

Emergent Christian Cliches to Avoid

To learn about Christian Piatt's new project, "A**hole Christian Survival Guide," and to pre-order your...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Daddy’s Top Ten Childbirth Freak-Outs (pt. 2 of 2)

Yesterday I posted part one of this story. Click here to read that first if...

October 24, 2012

Daddy’s Top-Ten Childbirth Freak-Outs (Pt. 1 of 2)

Earlier in 2012, I had my first memoir/humor book published called "PregMANcy: A Dad, A...

October 13, 2012

Louis C.K. on Our Neighbor’s Bowl and What “Fair” Is

Writing books is a strange process. When you're in the middle of creating something this...

September 2012

September 05, 2012

Bromosapien: Evolution of the Postmodern Male (Part 2)

This is kind of a three-part blog post series. I wrote about part of the...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

SNAP / Food Stamp Challenge, Day 4: Piatt FAIL

I don't mind failing as much as I do admitting I've failed. And technically, we haven't...

August 22, 2012

SNAP / Food Stamp Challenge, Day 3: Slip-Ups

"We should go to a restaurant tonight," said my three-year-old daughter, Zoe, over breakfast today....

August 21, 2012

SNAP / Food Stamp Challenge, Day 2: The Shelf

I'm not making friends among my family members with this challenge. Because it was my...

August 15, 2012

Resources for SNAP Food Stamp Challenge

After putting out there that we're going to do the SNAP Challenge August 20-26th (living...

August 14, 2012

Planning for Poverty: The SNAP Challenge

I've said before that privilege often is invisible until you don't have it. So in...

August 07, 2012

Sikh Calls for Peace Reminiscent of Amish Shooting Response

I, like most people, was deeply troubled by news of another mass shooting, this time...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Bryan Fischer: Blame Darwin, Liberals, Gays for Aurora Shooting

It's common for pundits and media talking heads to use things like the tragic killing...

July 14, 2012

God Hates _______.

Fred Phelps and his followers at Westboro Baptist Church (if you can call it a...

July 13, 2012

Five ‘Christian Parenting’ Ideas To Let Go Of

I was invited by Paul, my editor at Huffington Post, to write a piece on...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Mad Men, Catholics and a “Moral Revolution”

Amy and I have been working (translated: watching lazily) our way through the first several...