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February 2014

February 11, 2014

What makes God mad? My hard heart.

This weekend, I had the perfect setup for a stereotypical social justice Christian sermon. I...

February 10, 2014

“Don’t let those who hope in you be put to shame because of me”

God spoke to me this weekend through some loving criticism I got about my blog...

February 07, 2014

Five hypotheses about original sin and total depravity

So I went to the Facebook United Methodist Clergy page yesterday with the question of...

February 06, 2014

Why we need safe sanctuaries (two personal stories TW SA)

During the past week, there have been a lot of stories in the news about...

February 05, 2014

Al Mohler’s Nihilistic Man vs. Bill Nye’s Reasonable Man

It should come as no surprise that arch-fundamentalist Al Mohler went all in with a...

February 05, 2014

Did we crucify Jesus or did God? (Using @ScotMcKnight to bludgeon bad atonement theory)

Scot McKnight had a very interesting post last week concerning a recently popular"scapegoat" atonement theory...

February 04, 2014

Wrestling with disappointment (#sermon #podcast)

Sometimes we get burned when we think we're doing the right thing. This happened to...

February 03, 2014

“I used to be exactly like you before I got saved”

There are two obnoxious tendencies that many people seem to fall into quite naturally. The...

February 03, 2014

My favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman role: Magnolia’s Phil the nurse

The 1999 film Magnolia is perhaps my favorite movie of all time. It's about a...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Is God’s love more holy than his holiness is loving?

It may seem like a nonsensical distinction but I think it makes all the difference...

January 28, 2014

What if the nuns sued Uncle Sam over something other than sex?

A group of nuns called the Little Sisters of the Poor are in the news...

January 27, 2014

Church, I think we’re gonna be okay

The past several years of my life have been building up to a three and...

January 27, 2014

Wrestling with original sin (#sermon #podcast)

A week ago Sunday evening, we looked at the story of Adam and Eve as...

January 26, 2014

I am the bread of life (#sermon #podcast)

Last Sunday morning, I preached on Jesus' statement "I am the bread of life." I...

January 24, 2014

A response to @BillMaher’s recent comments about God

I've been reading an interview with outspoken atheist comedian Bill Maher in the Atlantic. The...

January 23, 2014

Were there mushrooms in Eden?

There are few things that make me smack my head more than the idea that...

January 22, 2014

Is it worse to humble-brag or to pull a Richard Sherman?

In the blogosphere, the key to building a platform is to make other people think...

January 21, 2014

Some Henri Nouwen thoughts on prayer

A woman from my church gave me a bunch of spiritual books because she was...

January 20, 2014

Salvation from “whiteness”: a subversive reading of Job

For Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to consider a very challenging quote from black...

January 17, 2014

Is the Old Testament a debate between priests and prophets?

I've been reading two books recently that have me really wondering what to do with...

January 16, 2014

Wrestling with the Bible (#sermon #podcast)

Last weekend, I preached on wrestling with the Bible. We looked at the Tower of...

January 15, 2014

Do we want to live in a world where people get shot for texting?

It made me really sad and a little bit frightened to read about the latest...

January 13, 2014

Three different conceptions of Biblical authority

Thanks very much for your responses to my last post on Biblical inerrancy. Though some...

January 11, 2014

The two verses that torpedo Biblical inerrancy

This weekend, we will be wrestling with what it means for the Bible to be...

January 09, 2014

R.C. Sproul’s self-exalting “solidarity” with God’s holiness

I knew I was going to read something that would rankle me in RC Sproul's...

January 08, 2014

“Do not believe every spirit” (1 John 4)

At the basilica's Monday mass, the epistle reading was from 1 John 4, which includes:...

January 06, 2014

“I am who I am” (#sermon #podcast)

In my sermon this weekend, I preached about Moses' encounter with God at the burning...

January 06, 2014

The difference between spiritual purity and moral cleanliness

Leviticus 10:10 says, "You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between...

January 05, 2014

When the Equal Rights Amendment was “gay marriage”

The amnesia of America culture always fascinates me particularly with regard to the things that...

January 03, 2014

A letter that captures the heart of the Methodist conflict

The Institute of Religion and Democracy just published a letter from a retired professor Walter...

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