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November 2010

November 04, 2010

If Your Family Has Attitudes This Time of Year, Use the Beatitudes to Stay in Good Cheer

Dreading upcoming family gatherings for the holidays? This reading of the Beatitudes just might quell...

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 14, 2010

Constantly Living the Great Commandment is Impossible — And That’s Okay

We simply cannot love God all of the time in the kind of all-consuming way...

October 12, 2010

The Comfort of the Cross

Here are six truths about suffering---and four steps to relieve it---that should prove comforting to...

September 2010

September 15, 2010

Doing Christianity vs. Being Christian

Here's an expansion upon my Tweet o' this morning that read: "Watch that you don't...

August 2010

August 24, 2010

What Exactly is the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is God--fully God, not any sort of partial, almost God sort of...

July 2010

July 30, 2010

Anne Rice: “I Quit Being a Christian!” Yaaaaawn.

As you've likely heard, renowned author of novels about vampires Anne Rice has boldly declared...

July 17, 2010

Those Ignorant, Laughable Fundamentalists. Right?

I just got in a comment to yesterday's A Christian Reader Asks: “They’re Doing Yoga...

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 05, 2010

What Would Jesus Do (If He Saw Himself Wearing a Propeller Beanie)?

Pursuant to yesterday's "JesusDressUp.com: Harmless Hilarity, or Offensive Blasphemy?": First off, excellent comments, you guys! Sheer...

May 2010

May 27, 2010

The One Thing I Dreaded Most About Becoming a Christian

When I very suddenly became a Christian, I was in a supply closet at my...

May 24, 2010

Should Christians Care About the Old Testament?

A young Christian guy wrote to ask, "Do I really have to care all that...

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...

May 14, 2010

Why Did God Choose Me (Instead of You)?

I recently received an email from one F. Stuart "Skip" Leeds, a physician and faculty...

April 2010

April 04, 2010

Peace of the Lord

Happy Easter! Well, to ratchet that all back just a bit. Cuz, you know: manners,...

February 2010

February 18, 2010

Religious Tolerance: Lack of Conviction, or World’s Only Hope?

In the course of the (really interesting) reader responses to yesterday's Does God REALLY Answer...

February 17, 2010

Does God REALLY Answer My Questions?

By way of commenting on yesterday's I Don't Let Go; I Don't Let God, a...

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.

February 10, 2010

Do You Bore God?

Christians like to think in terms of themselves or others being "pleasing to God." But...

January 2010

January 08, 2010

If You Think You Know God, Be Quiet

We all hate doubt and uncertainty in our lives lives. What we want is security....

January 06, 2010

Why Won’t Non-Christians Let Us Have World Peace?

I join with many past and future Miss America wannabes in declaring that I, too,...

December 2009

December 31, 2009

My Answer to the New-Ager Who Claims to Know God

Thanks, a great deal, to everyone who left a response to the New-Ager about whom...

December 29, 2009

A New-Ager Asks: “MUST I Know Jesus Before I Can Know God?”

In this morning's post (The Holy Spirit = God = All You Need to Know),...

December 29, 2009

The Holy Spirit = God = All You Need to Know

We make Christianity entirely too complicated. The whole point of it is supposed to be...

November 2009

November 11, 2009

Holiday Family Gathering Coming Up? Here’s How to Let the Beatitudes Quell Your Attitudes

Here's how to use the Beatitudes to this year be a blessing to yourself and...

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...

October 2009

October 29, 2009

We Get the God We Can Handle

In yesterday's The Moment of My Christian Conversion--And How Mistaken It Left Me, I left...

October 28, 2009

The Moment of My Christian Conversion–And How Mistaken It Left Me

I became a Christian when I was thirty-eight years old. Up until the moment of...

October 22, 2009

The Comfort of the Cross

Here are six truths about suffering---and four steps to relieve it---that should prove comforting to...