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April 2015

April 26, 2015

Six ways I will never stop being evangelical

The Christian blogosphere seems to viralize two things: 1) numbered lists (five reasons why this,...

April 24, 2015

How to create sanctuary in our lives (with Terry Hershey)

This week I've been reading Terry Hershey's book Sanctuary as part of our Patheos book...

April 22, 2015

Is facebook screwing bloggers or have readers’ sharing habits changed?

I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my blog traffic. A year ago,...

April 21, 2015

Love and the day of judgment (1 John 4:17)

1 John 4 is one of the most comforting and life-giving chapters of the whole...

April 17, 2015

Another world is possible (a shout-out to the #FightFor15 and #DivestTulane movements)

During the past week, I have had the privilege of supporting two different political campaigns,...

April 13, 2015

“Thank you, I’m good” (when students reject free donut holes)

Every Wednesday morning, I try to convince hundreds of power-walking Tulane students to accept a...

April 08, 2015

When people with power do not fear God

Like many others, I watched the video of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shooting...

April 06, 2015

I choose to live in a world where resurrection happens

During Lent this year, a Presbyterian minister named John Shuck posted on the Friendly Atheist...

April 03, 2015

Embracing godforsakenness: how Jesus’ cross saves the human community

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" These words that Jesus spoke on...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Radical Jesus 101: Two very different ways of defining sin

I figured Ash Wednesday would be a good day to meditate upon the meaning of...

February 17, 2015

On learning not to hate Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras. Everyone down here in New Orleans is enamored with it. I enjoyed... some...

February 16, 2015

Brian Williams: a Sunday school conversation

We talked about Brian Williams in Sunday school yesterday. I can't remember exactly what the...

February 13, 2015

Can Christianity be sex-positive? A chat with Dianna Anderson

Dianna Anderson is a twitter friend and conversation partner who is part of our growing tribe...

February 09, 2015

On self-serving appeals to God’s sovereign “natural” order

In response to the backlash against Barack Obama's Prayer Breakfast remarks about violence that had...

February 08, 2015

Obama, Pope Francis, and the Internet’s hatred of nuance and context

During the past week, both President Obama and Pope Francis generated Internet controversies that exemplified...

February 02, 2015

Is God offended by our sin?

What is God's attitude toward our sin? How you answer this question says a lot...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Tony Jones and the twitter court of justice

[Trigger warning: genuinely confused but well-intentioned dudebro asking honest questions that may be offensive and

January 24, 2015

Radical Jesus 101: Is humanity good or evil?

Is humanity good or evil? Some conservative evangelicals would say that the answer to this...

January 18, 2015

How my grandpa taught me to be a pastor

This photo pretty well captures the personality of my crazy, wonderful grandpa, Ralph Storm, whose...

January 14, 2015

Radical Jesus 101: What is God?

Most cultures in human history have had some concept of God, whether it's one god...

January 08, 2015

“He makes wars cease to the end of the earth” (Psalm 46:9)

Today's psalm from the Presbyterian daily lectionary was Psalm 46. A couple of lines in this...

January 07, 2015

Radical Jesus 101: a new series

First of all, I'm completely dissatisfied with the title. Few words are more played out...

January 05, 2015

Make us comfortable with being uncomfortable

Yesterday in church, our pastor prayed, "Make us comfortable with being uncomfortable." I'd been looking...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Seven posts from 2014 that I wish more people read

A lot of bloggers at the end of the year put out a list of...

December 29, 2014

A hopefully friendly Christian response to the atheist ten non-commandments

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine shared a set of ten "non-commandments"...

December 27, 2014

Which narrow gate is the narrow gate Jesus wants us to walk through?

At a recent campus ministry conference, the closing sermon was about Jesus' exhortation to "enter...

December 24, 2014

The cops who need to be thanked

I know that I've been sharing a lot of troubling articles on social media about...

December 18, 2014

Original sin and the identity of the other (questioning an apparent collision of values)

At a campus ministry conference I've been attending, a conservative evangelical speaker talked about the...

December 15, 2014

Making space in the Advent/Christmas wars

There's a war during the Christmas season that's different than the supposed "war on Christmas"...

December 11, 2014

The moral unseriousness of torture and other stupid “tough guy” solutions to the world’s problems

In the world of politics, most things are the opposite of what they seem. When...

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