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May 2013

May 10, 2013

The idolatry of the mission statement

A facebook friend shared this meme. It's scary how perfectly it captures a phenomenon in...

May 09, 2013

Why suburbia is bad for the kingdom: a response to Mere Orthodoxy

Postmodern thinkers sometimes settle for deconstructing the motives of their critics instead of making defensible...

May 09, 2013

The Ascension: Did Jesus leave us to fight the Empire on our own?

It's probably the most poignant scene in the original Star Wars movie. Obi-Wan has engaged...

May 08, 2013

Eternity is living in the moment

It sounds like an ignorant hippie thing to say and the greatest possible contradiction. Eternity...

May 07, 2013

God’s Pentecost vs. my cynicism

God broke me today in a really good way. You see I'm a recovering cynic...

May 06, 2013

Christian man-feminism: allies and misogynists

Recently I've found myself called into conversation with the new evangelical feminist movement that has...

May 06, 2013

Monday Merton 5.6.13

I'm pretty exhausted from having had two retreats back to back this weekend and preparing...

May 05, 2013

The kings of the Earth and the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:24)

The lectionary reading for last week was taken from Revelation 21-22 which describes the New...

May 04, 2013

How does Paul define sin? (Romans 14:13-23)

The Daily Office reading for today was Romans 14:13-23. I was particularly struck by verses...

May 03, 2013

Why I would fail Michael and Debi Pearl’s parenting class

I read a very disturbing post on Patheos by a woman named Libby Anne who...

May 03, 2013

Is Guantanamo Bay as far as the east is from the west?

Do you think these human beings matter to God? They certainly don't matter much to...

May 02, 2013

Jonathan Martin’s Prototype: Salvation as the Restoration of Humanity

It's a strange and beautiful thing to hear someone preaching your own thoughts in a...

May 02, 2013

The incomplete jigsaw puzzle of Biblical interpretation (Christian Smith)

The 2nd century Gnostic heretics were very good at constructing airtight, scripture-based arguments for their...

May 01, 2013

Please pray for my buddy Vincent!

Vincent Alexander was like any other kindergartener at Orange Grove Elementary School a month ago....

May 01, 2013

Worldviewism and the nature of truth

I had an outbreak of worldviewism today on my Facebook page today after I shared...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Privilege and Biblical interpretation

This is a post where I'm raising a question that I flat-out don't know the...

April 29, 2013

An idea: smoking hot sermons from on-fire preacherwomen

So I got an idea of a way to turn the "smoking hot wife" meme...

April 29, 2013

Get out of the boat! (Be bold like Peter)

This weekend we continued Burke UMC's Rewrite series on how God rewrites the lives of...

April 28, 2013

My wife is not a rotisserie chicken or a leaky faucet

Complementarian megachurch pastors are like pitchers who only throw 40 mile an hour change-ups. It...

April 27, 2013

Cut government spending, except when I have to wait in line

A number of people in my church have been impacted by the game of chicken...

April 26, 2013

752 and the messianic longing of Scandal

Since my wife is addicted to Scandal, I watched it with her last night while...

April 25, 2013

What does the blood of Jesus actually do?

A basic principle of Christianity is that Jesus died on the cross for our sins....

April 25, 2013

Bob Edgar: A Christian for the Common Good (1943-2013)

He always had a joke for the pastor in the handshake line, often a slapstick...

April 24, 2013

How does a Wesleyan deal with predestination and election?

My favorite preacher Jonathan Martin covered Romans 8 a couple of weekends ago in his...

April 23, 2013

Does Victoria’s Secret have a better anthropology than the church?

After I got James K.A. Smith's new book Imagining the Kingdom, several of you suggested...

April 22, 2013

Why I clash with the gatekeepers

I often clash with the gatekeepers of Christian orthodoxy. I'm sure that I get under...

April 22, 2013

Monday Merton 4.22.2013

I overslept this morning and I need to get out to my lake to walk...

April 21, 2013

Don’t stop immigration reform over the Boston bombing!

I knew it was coming. The lunatics in the outrage industrial complex are out in...

April 20, 2013

So what about other religions?

We've been having a very stimulating conversation at our confirmation retreat that has completely derailed...

April 20, 2013

Defining sin for adolescents

I'm on our church's confirmation retreat. For the last three years, we've framed our retreat...

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