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April 2013

April 19, 2013

Liberated from hate: my brother Ryan’s testimony

I pray a lot for the college kids from our church. In addition to the...

April 18, 2013

How did Jesus come to love guns and hate sex?

Since the gun debate is back in the news, I figured I would pull this...

April 17, 2013

Mr. Saturday Night Special

One of my favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd songs is "Mr. Saturday Night Special." The US Senate's...

April 17, 2013

Maybe God is angry at people who project their anger onto Him

If you want to know who God is really angry at, maybe you should read...

April 17, 2013

Should Christians weigh in on other peoples’ tragedies?

A friend of mine who recently had a major shift in his theology wrote the...

April 16, 2013

Why is a famous evangelical pastor defending slavery?

I was recently made aware of a debate going on in the neo-reformed Gospel Coalition...

April 16, 2013

Monday Merton 4.15.2013

Well it's Tuesday but it's still my Monday Merton for the week since I like...

April 14, 2013

Why you need to hear Jonathan Martin preach about heaven

I've got issues with how people talk about heaven. It bothers me that the most...

April 14, 2013

Breathing kingdom on airplanes and elsewhere

In the wake of the amazing Missio Alliance conference, I wanted to continue to wrestle...

April 13, 2013

Removing the linchpin of Christian hate

People hate each other for all kinds of sinful reasons. In my life, I've hated...

April 12, 2013

Interruption, Ideology, and Truth

Amos Yong at the Missio Alliance talked today about "the phenemonology of interruption" in Pentecost....

April 12, 2013

Airplane evangelism: Rachel Held Evans vs. Ray Comfort

Rachel Held Evans just wrote a very honest and humble piece about wrestling with the...

April 11, 2013

The Anthropocentrism of the Personal Afterlife Insurance Gospel

I'm at the Missio Alliance conference. Just heard Scot McKnight talk about the distinction between...

April 11, 2013

1 John and my pepper plants

This spring has been a difficult one for me as a gardener. My peppers have...

April 11, 2013

Amazon and the Soviet Consumerism of 21st Century Capitalism

When I was a child in the eighties, I remember having a conversation with my...

April 10, 2013

Why should I read DeLeuze?

I listen to a Christian hipster podcast called Homebrewed Christianity. They were recently part of...

April 10, 2013

What is the difference between spirit and flesh?

Almost since its beginning, Christianity has had a complicated relationship with the teachings of the...

April 08, 2013

“This is eternal life” (John 17:3)

I had a powerful encounter with today's Daily Office reading. The gospel reading was John...

April 08, 2013

Monday Merton 4.8.2013

I'm going to start spending Mondays on my blog with Thomas Merton since I've been...

April 08, 2013

Rewrite: Abraham

We've just started a sermon series in the spirit of Easter called Rewrite in which...

April 07, 2013

Five D’s of Emergent Christian Mansplanation

Yesterday I talked about Christian mansplainers who operate according to 18th century principles of epistemology....

April 06, 2013

Nominations for most contentious Bible verses?

Hey friends, so I'm going to do a series on most contentious Bible verses and...

April 06, 2013

Five C’s of Christian Mansplanation

I witnessed a conversation on facebook last night where one of these young, restless, well...

April 05, 2013

James KA Smith summarizes the battle of the 21st century

I've just started reading James KA Smith's new book Imagining the Kingdom. Smith's basic argument...

April 04, 2013

Should I convict other people of their sin?

One of the litmus tests that evangelicals make when we evaluate a potential church family...

April 02, 2013

Fleeing the wrath to come vs. hearing the voice of love

A few months ago, a friend wrote a blog asking whether the teachings of Henri...

April 01, 2013

On Responsible Criticism and Hip Hop

Yesterday I experienced a new first: the first time somebody has made up an email...

April 01, 2013

Blog Resurrected: Help Me Make Some Choices!

It was really good to take a break for Lent. I did a lot of...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Why Google’s “War on Easter” is offensively Christlike

Today is Easter. It's also Cesar Chavez's birthday. Google decided to put Cesar Chavez's face...

March 24, 2013

Ugliness Into Beauty #6: Proof of God’s Mercy

There's an elephant in the room when we talk about the cross. The cross is...

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