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November 2010

November 15, 2010

Listen to God; Screw the Rest

You and God are co-stars in the only reality show you (or, surprise, He) will...

November 10, 2010

Letter From an Atheist Man Married to a Christian Woman

What's it like being an atheist man married to an atheist woman?

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...

July 2010

July 19, 2010

When Pretty Women Dance

After the dinner I wrote a bit about in yesterday's How I Got a Blog...

July 18, 2010

How I Got a Blog on Huffington Post (And Help Me Mooch Indian Food!)

Last night Cat and I had drinks and dinner with a new friend (DR!) at...

July 13, 2010

Does God Control or Persuade? (And Is His Future What We Make It?)

Remember my post "Waffles?" Me neither. Weirdly enough, hitting my blog's "Publish" button triggers a...

June 2010

June 03, 2010

What Am I Going to Do with You People?

I'm so confused. Today I was doing a fairly massive amount of writing about tithing....

June 02, 2010

Christians: Are We Cool with Transylvanians?

(This is a follow-up to yesterday's "Christians: Are We Cool with Transvestites?") Before I became a...

May 2010

May 19, 2010

“What’s Wrong With Dressing Sexy?”

An earnest-sounding young Christian woman wrote to ask me why she shouldn't "dress sexy" if...

April 2010

April 26, 2010

The Restoration of John Shore

As you may already know, charismatic Christian (and apparent long-time tax evader) Stephen Baldwin has...

April 26, 2010

I, a Rabid Anti-Christian, Very Suddenly Convert

The split-second before I very suddenly became a Christian I couldn’t have been less of...

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...

February 2010

February 16, 2010

I Don’t Let Go; I Don’t Let God

Think you're willing to "Let go and let God"? Think again.

November 2009

November 12, 2009

Where (If Anywhere) Does Christ End, and Paul Begin?

It's been my experience that what the statement, "It's not Christ I have a problem...

November 03, 2009

The U.S. Christian Community Finally Returns My Calls!

After I posted yesterday's Why Won't the U.S. Christian Community Return My Phone Calls?, my...

August 2009

August 27, 2009

“Born Into Sin” Just Means Born, Period

A reader wrote to me of her disdain for the Christian concept of original sin. "I...

July 2009

July 21, 2009

Death is the Answer

I think about death a lot. I figure anyone alive does, but I could be...

July 15, 2009

“Away, Gay Christians! But About That Charitable Work You Do …”

As reported in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, the American...

July 02, 2009

How to Believe in God: Brain First, THEN Emotion

God designed us with absolute and inviolate free will so that we could choose to...

May 2009

May 04, 2009

Why Forbidding Evangelical Soldiers To Proselytize Makes Me Proud To Be American

Apparently some Christian soldiers stationed in Afghanistan are (sort of) proselytizing to the local population....

April 2009

April 16, 2009

Make That Christianity: 95% Brains, 5% Emotion

Yesterday, did I say that Christianity is 5% brains and 95% emotion? What I was...

April 15, 2009

Christianity: 5% Brain, 95% Emotion. Yeah, Baby!

I think those of us who believe in God are sometimes too reluctant to acknowledge...

April 08, 2009

The Comfort of the Cross

Here are six truths about suffering that should prove comforting to any Christian in pain:...

March 2009

March 12, 2009

Doing Christianity vs. Being Christian

Sometimes I think that in our efforts to be all that we can be when...

March 09, 2009

Crosswalk.com Deletes My Post Questioning the Gender of God

As you might know, most everything I post on this blog appears simultaneously on Crosswalk.com,...

March 08, 2009

Must God be a He-Man?

"Christians go crazy if you in any way suggest that God isn't a man," said...

February 2009

February 27, 2009

The Opposition Response to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount

All of us have just heard Jesus Christ give his big long speech. Mr. Christ...

February 25, 2009

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: “Quite the Crowd Pleaser, Charlie.”

Following Obama's speech last night, I found myself wondering what today's political "analysts" might say...

February 15, 2009

John 1:18: Bring on the Stupid

John 1:18 says: No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only,...

February 10, 2009

Ten Ways Christians Tend to Fail at Being Christian

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