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June 10, 2010

The Friend at Midnight: A Father’s Day Sermon

Father’s Day is a day when we stand on our father’s doorstep and offer him...

June 09, 2010

Holy Hospitality: Seeing Christ in the Immigrant

What would have happened to our Savior had his family been refused comfort and hospitality...

June 08, 2010

The Call of Retreat: Unfurl

As summer begins, spiritual director Christine Valters Paintner offers this invitation to slow down and...

June 07, 2010

One Nation Under God, and a lot of stress

My 21-year-old son got home 3 days ago from a semester spent in Copenhagen, on...

June 07, 2010

Nared and Filfin Contemplate the Mind of God

One of my favorite story-tellers, Mark Yaconelli, shares a remarkable conversation between his daughter's two...

June 05, 2010

Life-Positive and The Politics of the Middle

My wife and I began a conversation the other day evaluating the ways in which...

June 04, 2010

Bible, Torah & Koran as Art

"I’m making an American Flag. A big one. Twenty-four feet by thirteen feet. I’m making...

June 03, 2010

Our God is a Chaotic God

What if there really was nothing before the first things in the universe? No God...

June 02, 2010

Surprising Abundance: A Meditation on Sunday’s Lectionary

"Today’s progressive and moderate Christians struggle with feelings of scarcity, despite the abundance of the...

June 02, 2010

Jewish Superheroes: A look at an oppressed people

The Jewish people (in and outside of biblical record) were an oppressed people. If you...

June 01, 2010

13 Things I Like About Protestant Christians

Over at the Pagan Portal, the very funny Starr Foster just posted a list of...

June 01, 2010

Illustrating the Divine

Lost in the never-ending debates about biblical inerrancy and infalibility is the recognition of the...

May 2010

May 30, 2010

Post-Denominational Christianity

With any luck the mainline church will be dead shortly. As a person who came...

May 30, 2010

Responding to the Oil Spill: A Spiritual Practice

I awoke this morning to the news that BP’s ‘top kill’ strategy has failed: “In...

May 28, 2010

Leaving the the gardens of our own making: a different view on the adam and eve story

desire longs for a less mediated reality. – anna smith Delight yourself in the LORD...

May 28, 2010

Memorial Day: Finding the Sacred in a Secular Holiday

"Regardless of our feelings about a particular war or military service in general, Memorial Day...

May 27, 2010

Creation is Dying – What Can We Do?

This week I have read several articles about the impact of the oil spill that...

May 26, 2010

Have Christians Sinned Against the Gospel?

The ancient Greek word for sin, hamartia, is an archery term that refers to missing...

May 26, 2010

A Trinity-Shaped Life

I wonder if, on Trinity Sunday, many people feel like the sermon is answering a...

May 25, 2010

James Bond at Blockbusters

In my book Novel Preaching I tell of having lunch with the chair of the...

May 25, 2010

Feast of the Lamb

I win most “my childhood was so fundamentalist’” debates. In these conversations I usually just...

May 24, 2010

LOST Meaning-Making

Rather than simply escapist television, I would argue that for many fans of the series...

May 24, 2010

Sunday Recap: Spirit Freak

Missed church yesterday? Pastor Courtney Pinkerton shares her reflections on Pentecost: "Call her what you...

May 24, 2010

Why Technology Matters in Following Jesus

"Science and technology give us new ways to live our faith and show love to...

May 21, 2010

Cosmology, Ontology, and God

It seems like a universe capable of creating itself and time would eliminate the need...

May 20, 2010

Bird Shadows/Holy Spirit

"My God is in the next room, cooking unseen feasts and humming..." More poetic musings...

May 19, 2010

The Appointment

I was guilty of my own pet peeve a few days ago. I canceled dinner...

May 19, 2010

Are Science and Religion Compatible? You betcha!

"Why would someone want to think that science and religion are incompatible? I can think...

May 19, 2010

Holy Spirit: Lust, Life and Love

Our newest group blogger Jason Derr offers some rowdy ramblings on the Holy Spirit today:...

May 18, 2010

Letter to a Young Graduate

"Let this be the start of a great work of art. Live something beautiful. Live...