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February 2016

February 04, 2016

The wind is not always God

Every Wednesday morning, I give away donut holes and, more recently, cups of yerba mate...

February 03, 2016

Christian salvation and the Beatitudes # 3: The Meek

"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." Is there any verse in the...

February 01, 2016

Why I’m not really invested in what happens in Iowa today

I remember when I thought Barack Obama was going to save our country. Back in...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

Can you party and still be a Christian?

It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, which can be an awkward time for a...

January 29, 2016

Christian salvation and the Beatitudes #2: Those who mourn

I've started a series looking at Christian salvation through the lens of the Beatitudes, the...

January 28, 2016

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and white evangelical nihilism

It's going to be hard to write this without it coming across as trolling, but...

January 25, 2016

Christian salvation and the Beatitudes #1: Poverty in spirit

I've been wrestling with the concept of Christian salvation for decades. I used to think...

January 23, 2016

Guest Post: 11 Things to do Once You Decide to Stay Married to Someone with Mental Illness

[Our guest contributor Steve Austin is a writer, blogger, and family man from Birmingham, Alabama....

January 21, 2016

Why don’t we call God “they” instead of “he”?

For Christmas this year, I got Andrei Rublev's Trinity icon. It is the most beautiful...

January 19, 2016

Two Corinthians 3:17: why I love Donald Trump’s favorite verse

Everyone is making fun of Donald Trump for saying "Two" instead of "Second Corinthians" in...

January 19, 2016

Five ways you can help me launch my book

There's nothing more obnoxious than authors promoting their books. It always makes me roll my...

January 18, 2016

MLK and the peace that isn’t peace

In church yesterday, our community prayer included several quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr....

January 17, 2016

The loneliness of being a grownup today

Is it lonelier being a grownup today than it was in the past? I often...

January 13, 2016

Is damnation of the other a cornerstone of evangelical belief?

The Larycia Hawkins situation at Wheaton has become fodder for a lot of conversation about...

January 11, 2016

Can American Christianity be detoxified? (A summary of my first book)

Have we become what Jesus came to stop us from being? Many evangelical Christians in...

January 08, 2016

World Table: an experiment in troll-resistant commenting

Everyone knows the number one rule of navigating the blogosphere: don't read the comments! Which...

January 07, 2016

Do #BlackLivesMatter to white evangelical students and alumni of @WheatonCollege?

This week, Dr. Larycia Hawkins received notice from the Wheaton College administration that termination proceedings...

January 06, 2016

Can Jesus save the world from Christians?

It seems there are two kinds of Christians: those who think the world needs to...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

10 posts I wish more people had seen this year

Since everyone is doing their end-of-year top 10 posts, I figured I would do the...

December 29, 2015

Racism doesn’t always look like rage; usually it looks like fear

Racism doesn't always look like rage; usually it looks like fear. I had a strange...

December 28, 2015

Four women with books that heal

Over the past month and a half, I've read four books by four very different...

December 25, 2015

The God who reigns as a baby

Can you bow before a God who has come to Earth as a baby? That's...

December 23, 2015

Jesus’ name and the meaning of salvation

In Matthew 1:21, the angel Gabriel tells Mary what to name her new baby: “You...

December 17, 2015

Tearing down monuments, white supremacy, and political correctness

One of the most important propaganda moments of the US invasion of Iraq was when...

December 16, 2015

Do Christians worship the same God as Muslims?

Wheaton College has suspended its political science professor Larycia Hawkins for saying that Christians "worship...

December 14, 2015

Three Islamic concepts I wish Christians would adopt

Ross Douthat has been playing amateur theologian again in the New York Times. This time,...

December 12, 2015

Will you be our patron?

God has been moving at the NOLA Wesley United Methodist campus ministry. In February 2014,...

December 11, 2015

Why white Christians need to read Ta-nehisi Coates this Advent

Over the course of this fall, I have been working through Ta-nehisi Coates' book Between...

December 08, 2015

Why I’m thankful for Donald Trump

I'm thankful for Donald Trump for the same reason that I'm thankful for Fred Phelps,...

December 05, 2015

Is gunslinger Christianity even actually conservative?

I'm not sure what the right adjective is for the kind of Christianity espoused by...

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