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November 2017

November 21, 2017

Garage Sale Prayer Mats

On our first home assignment my best friend from high school came to visit me....

November 14, 2017

Baobab Tree Liturgies

Two years ago we hosted a day of prayer for foreigners working in the refugee...

November 07, 2017

Prayers from the Desert: The One Behind Peter

I am absolutely horrible at remembering scripture references. A couple weeks ago I was flipping...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Haunted by Horror: All Saints Day and Our Disenchanted World

It’s interesting to me that often Christians, specifically Evangelical Christians, sometimes have significant problems with...

October 24, 2017

The Butterfly Effect: Leaving Reality

Well over a decade ago, a guy named Fabian had an idea. It was an...

October 17, 2017

The Butterfly Effect: Dirty Work

The people responsible for the greatest amount of moral decay over the past fifteen years...

October 10, 2017

The Butterfly Effect: The Cost of Sex

We Westerners have confused love with desire, and now largely we no longer know how...

October 03, 2017

The Butterfly Effect: The Legacy of Hugh Hefner

Yes, having pills and contraceptives may make sex safer, but c'mon, don't we know that...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

The Burnette Chapel Church Shooting: Just Being Jesus

Some news outlets immediately tried to make this out to be a racial thing. You...

September 19, 2017

In Lieu of Self-Control

Recently someone asked me if I had all my babies naturally (as in, without an...

September 12, 2017

The One Who Makes Us Tremble

When Russell and I first moved to North Africa we lived in a big green...

September 05, 2017

Claiming Blindness

So, you know things are bad when you have spent the last few years living...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

A More Courageous Road

Home Assignment is hard y’all. We have been back in the States for a couple...

August 22, 2017

Christians Make the Best Atheists

Only a Christian can be a good atheist. -Jurgen Moltmann So this past month, I...

August 15, 2017

Charlottesville, the Church, and Our Self-Deceit

Nobody thinks they're a racist. Have you ever noticed that? In the social media bubbles of...

August 08, 2017

FAQs: “How Do You Do It? (I Never Could…)”

I distinctly remember long, slow runs around the Abilene Christian University campus around eleven o’clock...

August 01, 2017

FAQs “Why are Muslims Killing Christians Over There?”

“So why are Muslims killing Christians over there?” Usually right after I am asked this...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

FAQs: “So Are You Teaching Them English?”

"So are you teaching them all English?" Maybe people ask this from time to time...

July 18, 2017

FAQs: But Are You Safe?

My family is back in the States this summer on our home assignment that comes...

July 11, 2017

Introducing Eva Petross

So I'm very excited to make an announcement that has been a few months in...

July 04, 2017

Break Out the Cheese (A War-Time Story) by Eva Petross

The first time I ever evacuated from a war-zone I left behind a huge block...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Hearing From God: Movers and Quakers

If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, you’ve heard me talk about growing up...

June 20, 2017

Hearing From God: A Secular Enchantment

“In those days, the Word of the LORD was rare, there were not many visions.”...

June 13, 2017

Hearing From God: Kidnapping Sinatra

Until recently, one of the litmus tests for whether someone was to be considered sane...

June 06, 2017

Why You Need to Volunteer At Church

What if our hectic lives aren’t because of a lack of time but because of...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

A Beautiful Gospel: Singing Your Way to Wonder

Som Sabadell from Onidea on Vimeo. I'll get back to this video in a second....

May 23, 2017

Be Excellent to One Another: Bill & Ted Go To Church

This week's post is by my friend Sean Palmer. Sean is the new Teaching Pastor...

May 16, 2017

Leaving Church: Jesus Leaves Churches Too

Tony Steward hasn't been to church in over a year. At least that was what...

May 09, 2017

Leaving Church: The Institution of Casseroles

The truth is we need Institutions, and we have a far too limited view of...

May 02, 2017

Leaving Church: The Rise of Hate

The reason I appreciate Nietzsche’s work so much is because he at least hated Christianity...