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April 2015

April 11, 2015

THE SHACK’s Wm. Paul Young: Where’s God When…

Where's God in the midst of loss and suffering? How do we find hope and...

August 2012

August 01, 2012

God Loves Losers: Reflections on the Olympics

I'm an Olympics junkie. Not only that, but I'm also most ardently pro-American when watching...

July 2012

July 15, 2012

Church Sign Epic Fails: “Festival of Tolerance” Edition

For some reason, I've happened on a particularly large number of church signs that point...

March 2012

March 04, 2012

Man Finds Jesus in His Tortilla

Here I am, urging people to deconstruct their preconceptions about God, and this guy finds...

March 03, 2012

Is God Dead?

There was a movement back in the 1960s that many of us have only read...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

The Heart of All Anxiety: Fear of Loss

I got emails from my mom and uncle about Nana, my last living grandparent. The...

February 08, 2012

Examining John Piper’s “Masculine Christianity”

I really want to give people like John Piper the benefit of the doubt. Given...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

On Asperger Syndrome and Broken Hearts

Our son, Mattias, is eight years old. Everyone thinks their kid is special, and in...

January 14, 2012

From Sex to Satan, Some Churches Will Try Anything

I wrote a piece earlier this week about Pastor Ed Young and his wife doing...

January 11, 2012

Sex Experiments for Jesus?

Having grown up in the Dallas.Fort Worth area, I'm quite familiar with the Grapevine, Texas...

January 10, 2012

None is Saved While One Still Suffers

For some, the central message of Christianity is about personal salvation. What it is exactly...

January 06, 2012

Witnessing God in a Bloody Face

When your three-year-old daughter walks into your room at 2:30 in the morning covered in...

December 2011

December 23, 2011

Did Saturday Night Live’s Tim Tebow Skit Go Too Far?

Living in Colorado, I get more than a healthy dose of Tim Tebow Mania. I've...

December 17, 2011

A Love Supreme (Spoken Word)

I've been exploring the practice of Theo-poetics for the past few years, and here is...

December 16, 2011

Christians, Take Up Your Mats and Walk

There’s an old joke that speaks directly to one of the biggest issues holding back...

December 15, 2011

Matisyahu’s Naked Face: Religious Exodus?

When I shaved my head and posted photos on my Facebook page, I got about...

December 07, 2011

Confessions of a Prayer-Averse Minister

I'm sitting in the airport as I write this, halfway between home and Philadelphia, where...

December 06, 2011

Advent Blog Challenge & Free Gift

As most of you know, I have my blog hosted at Patheos, a wonderful interfaith...

December 02, 2011

Soundgarden, John Mayer, Bowling Alleys and Advent

My eight-year-old son, Mattias, just recently had his eighth birthday, complete with a magician, bunnies,...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

Preacher or False Prophet?

My first job in a church was as a music minister. I loved the senior...

November 22, 2011

Jesus’ Moment of Atheism

I’ve been working my way through Peter Rollins’ new book, Insurrection, when I came across...

November 17, 2011

We, the Pharisees

I was asked to read and reflect on a portion of Matt Woodley's new mediation...

November 16, 2011

A Talk with “BLUE LIKE JAZZ” Film Director Steve Taylor

While I was at Soularize in San Diego, Amy and I had the chance to...

November 14, 2011

Be A Man: Ethical Responses to Violence

I wonder, both as a parent and a follower of the way of Jesus, how...

November 03, 2011

The Eerie Efficiency of Disney

This picture, capping day three of theme park bliss, pretty much says it all. Almost,...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

Soularize, Day Two

It's a good thing that Soularize, the missional ministry gathering going on this week in...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

If You Meet God On the Road, Kill Him

I was talking to a woman at Church on Sunday who has been through more...

August 2011

August 09, 2011

Meeting Hitler in Heaven

I get asked all kinds of questions when I go to speak to groups about...

April 2010

April 04, 2010

Rob Bell’s “Resurrection”

how would you not be overwhelmed with despair? is the world ultimately a cold, hard,...

February 2009

February 18, 2009

On the economy, faith, consumption and the future

Consumers have built their lifestyles upon debt, as has the government, and the economy, which...