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February 2017

February 10, 2017

On starting a refugee resettlement center in Northwest Arkansas

I thought this might be a good time to offer an update on Canopy NWA...

February 04, 2017

How to be a Christian in the middle of this crisis

During a crisis, by necessity, time is allocated differently. You stay home from work and...

February 01, 2017

What to read right now

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The pernicious way Ronnie Floyd is wrong on refugees

I invite you to read two public statements on refugee resettlement published in the last...

January 19, 2017

Three quotes that illumine all of Scripture

Before his death, Luther famously scribbled a few notes. He wrote: Wir sein Pettler. Hoc est...

January 09, 2017

Kicking off the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 50th anniversary of Good Shepherd

In 1983, the world observed the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s birth. I was 11....

January 01, 2017

A quote for your New Year from one of the philosophers we will need this year

"I am a psychological and historical structure. Along with existence, I received a way of...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Best Books of 2016

So many books, so little time, but these are the best I read in 2016. There...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

The Refugee Resettlement Syllabus

As we have launched Canopy NWA, many volunteers have asked for a refugee resettlement reading...

November 19, 2016

Election Apocalyptic: Revealing Signs of God’s Kingdom as anti-dote to white nationalism

I think it is important to share with readers of this column that many,...

November 17, 2016

Dis-establishmentarian Jesus

I'm enough of a dis-establishmentarian to have been perhaps more ready than some for the...

November 15, 2016

To what is God calling the North American progressive church in this moment?

"The role of progressive clergy and nuns in creating sanctuaries and in demanding accountability from...

October 2016

October 13, 2016

Eric Metaxas is a tool

Bonhoeffer would be rolling over in his grave, if that were a thing. Here's a...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Bondage, discipline, and the ecclesial trap of voluntaristic identity fronts

"Secularity is helpfully analyzed in terms of an earlier national spatial scale and media culture...

September 15, 2016

The real presence of the gods

Some books are more present than others. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press prints books,...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

4 ways you can save the church now (and they’re not what you think)

Walter Benjamin worked thirteen years on Das Passagen-Werk (The Arcades Project), beginning in Paris in...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Calling all clergy! Stop being embarrassingly silent on worker justice

Everything that is revealed by the light is light. Therefore, it says, Wake up, sleeper!...

July 22, 2016

Praying in the way of Jesus

Scripture calls us to pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5:17). The news of the world,...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Worship in foreign languages: Why comprehension is over-rated

When we pray with others in languages not our own, we join--as it were--the celestial...

June 23, 2016

Pastoral ministry as comprehensive community consultation and catalyzing change

Yesterday Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson came to our church. He met with Canopy NWA, the...

June 21, 2016

Too much blood at the intersections

A few years back I bought (and then mostly didn't read) David H. Kelsey's Eccentric...

June 03, 2016

Suspecting the Church

There are good reason for lawyer jokes. Unethical and predatory lawyers are a real thing....

May 2016

May 09, 2016

The problem with “Diversity” as #ChurchGoals

A guest post by Elle Dowd, #DecolonizeLutheranism Diversity as a concept has become harmful. It’s...

January 2016

January 09, 2016

5 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2016

2015 permanently changed the face of North American Christianity. We are all witnesses to, and...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

On Repetition: New Year’s Again and Again and Again

In connection with the truth as inwardness in existence... the law is: the same, and...

December 24, 2014

Homebrewed Christianity: Geek is the New Quintessential

Bo Sanders and Tripp Fuller of Homebrewed Christianity may be happy to know that I...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Sarah Coakley on the Experience of Prayer in the Spirit

In the experience of the Spirit, prayer is found to be a two-way relationship, not...

October 2014

October 25, 2014

Why I Bless Same Gender Marriages… and you should too

Many churches across the country are having to discern in new ways how they will...

May 2014

May 25, 2014

Livestreaming Worship

Sunday mornings I find a church. I confess that for a few years in college...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

Watching Noah

Spoiler alert: This commentary/review contains major spoilers, inasmuch as any review can be said to...