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October 2010

October 23, 2010

What Non-Christians Want Christians To Hear

Here's a small sampling of the responses I got when I asked non-Christians about being...

October 18, 2010

The Joy of Hell

Without hell, what would be left of Christianity?

October 13, 2010

Making a Brokeback Mountain out of a molehill

Man loving his best friend? Good. Man going Brokeback Mountain with his best friend? Bad....

October 01, 2010

Wings on a Pig

Being gay isn't like other "sins" at ALL. And here's why.

September 2010

September 28, 2010

Words Do Matter; Bullying Does Matter: An Interview with the Executive Director of The Trevor Project

In September of 2010 I interviewed Charles Robbins, then executive director and CEO of the Trevor...

September 26, 2010

The Gay Teen Suicide Rate and the Christian Condemnation of Gays

It's a fact that gay teenagers are about thirty percent more likely than straight teenagers...

September 14, 2010

Our God of Premarital Sex

Holy cow! In response to yesterday's "The Question of Premarital Sex Rears Its Ugly Head!", many...

September 13, 2010

The Question of Premarital Sex Rears Its Ugly Head!

Now, where were we? Wow, that's a lot of W's, relatively speaking. Anyway, right. I...

September 07, 2010

Win Friends and Influence People by Condemning Others and Speaking for God

One of the absolute best things you can do for another person is to tell...

August 2010

August 23, 2010

On the Christian’s Natural Sense of Superiority

Being close to God is something to be grateful for, not proud of.

August 21, 2010

The Fearsome Song of the True Believer

I believe that my beliefs about the qualities and nature of God are absolutely, 100%...

August 20, 2010

Is Christianity the Right Religion? Is Hell Real?

Lately I seem to have become Answer Guy. Which is cool, of course. More than...

August 18, 2010

Evangelicals and Muslims: Both Love Jesus

Today at lunch I asked Pastor Bob, “If you could say any one thing about...

August 11, 2010

“Is the Devil Making Me Believe in a ‘Liberal’ God Who Isn’t the True God?”

"My problem is that on a deeper level, something inside of me is saying that...

August 09, 2010

Don’t Waste Your Time Fighting Gay Marriage

Last January, when the federal trial to decide the legality of California's Proposition 8 was...

August 07, 2010

The Ground Zero Mosque: “No” Means Crazy Wins. Screw That.

I've been happy not to take the time to sink deeply into myself to discover...

August 02, 2010

I, the comfortably cursing Christian

I am entirely confident that God is perfectly okay with me cursing whenever I find...

July 2010

July 28, 2010

Christians and abortion: let’s act our age, k?

I’m against abortion. So are you. So is everyone. Who doesn't like babies? The reason...

July 01, 2010

Muslim Child Prophet? Muslim Child Actor? Midget Cleric?

One of the weird things about writing this blog is that it forces me to...

June 2010

June 15, 2010

An interview about my book “I’m OK — You’re Not.”

Below is an interview done with me by ChristianBook.com upon the publication of I'm OK....

June 14, 2010

How Is “Convert, You Sinner!” Loving?

There's just no way, "I love you; now completely change" is a good message to...

May 2010

May 04, 2010

Ten Ways Christians Fail to be Christian

I feel that we Christians too often fail in these ten ways: 1. Too much...

April 2010

April 06, 2010

Church to Abused Wife: “Stay With Him”

Due to a series of posts I once wrote and then collected into a longer...

March 2010

March 23, 2010

Christians Smoking Pot?

In response to When Jesus, Drugs, and Lawrence Welk Collide, a reader wrote me to ask:...

March 16, 2010

Original Sin: Thanks, Mom and Dad!

A young man wrote me yesterday to ask me what exactly the phrase "original sin"...

March 04, 2010

If You Heed Paul on Gays, Heed Jesus on Money

How can any Christian take what Paul said about homosexuality literally, and at the same...

March 01, 2010

Are The End Times At Hand? Should We Pack Anything?

Yesterday I received an email that said, "John, I'm hearing much discussion on the recent...

February 2010

February 26, 2010

You’re Not a Real Christian!

Can we all agree, when discussing religion, to refrain from being completely dickish?

February 25, 2010

Christian Teens and Gay Teens: It’s in the Cards

On the Day of Silence, meant to bring attention to LGBT bullying, should Christian students...

February 19, 2010

Can the Christian and Muslim Both Be Right?

In yesterday's Religious Tolerance: Lack of Conviction, or World's Only Hope? I asserted that ultimately...