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June 2016

June 14, 2016

Three minutes well spent on understanding terrorism

This is a video by former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox. One of the key takeaways:...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

When you reduce your position to a hashtag, it’s all over

Like many people in the progressive/emergent Christian community, I've been following the Tony Jones/Julie McMahon...

January 2015

January 09, 2015

Sally Kohn almost gets it right–but gets it wrong in some pretty important ways

In a recent article on terrorism, Elizabeth Plank posted the following tweet from CNN/Daily Beast commentator...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

Why so many white evangelical Christians are incompetent scoundrels

Writer Samuel Johnson once said that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." To...

December 11, 2014

The most dangerous people in the world

We're often led to believe that the most dangerous people on the planet are those with...

December 09, 2014

Two stories about Ebola–one that pissed me off and the other that made me proud to be human

The first story: Doctors in Sierra Leone are going on strike to protest inadequate medical equipment, primarily...

December 05, 2014

Why you need to read “Disarming Scripture”–it’s a matter of life and death

One of my favorite sayings attributed to Jesus comes from Mark 2:27 "The Sabbath was...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Could Koalas be the key?

If only they'd been able to get the leader of ISIS to hold it, too. But...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

I was going to blog about Halloween–until I read Ben Corey’s post

It's called The Evil Part of Halloween. But it's not what you think. As Ben...

October 27, 2014

Who is really naive–those who think violence can solve their problems or those who don’t?

I've received a fair bit of flack over a post I wrote last week that essentially...

October 23, 2014

Why “terrorists” are suddenly attacking Canada

The answer isn't complicated. We are exporting violence right now at a level not seen...

October 06, 2014

We didn’t fall from Eden–we are slowly but surely crawling out of hell

"A loathing of modernity is one of the great constants of contemporary social criticism." So...

October 02, 2014

WWJB? Eleven years later, the shirt has worn out, but the question remains

Eleven years ago, in response to the second Iraq war, my friend Brad Jersak created T-shirts with...

October 01, 2014

Obviously, air strikes fix everything