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January 2013

January 27, 2013

Danceable Homiletics #1: Ring Them Bells (featuring Brian Zahnd)

My friend Bram gave me an epiphany today. I asked him what I should do...

January 27, 2013

God’s grace in 4 stick figure drawings

We had the first session of our new member class today. During the first class,...

January 27, 2013

God's grace in 4 stick figure drawings

We had the first session of our new member class today. During the first class,...

January 25, 2013

Sex-trafficking, colonialism, and miscommunication

I found a direct application that fleshes out a little better what I stumbled through...

January 24, 2013

On critique and dismissal

After witnessing several exchanges here and here and here regarding blogosphere dramas around Phyllis Tickle...

January 24, 2013

Kayal ta-arog (Psalm 42 in hip-hop)

Kayal ta-arog al afike mayim is how you write "As the deer panteth for the...

January 23, 2013

How many of us are like Cephas? (Galatians 2:11-21)

The Daily Office epistle for today was Galatians 2:11-21. In it, Paul talks about his...

January 22, 2013

Methodism's secret crush on Mark Driscoll

There's something attractive about Mark Driscoll to Methodists in a Clint Eastwood (pre-chair-incident) kind of...

January 21, 2013

I'm glad my church pays for my birth control

Well it's not a line item on our church budget called "Pastor family planning fund"...

January 21, 2013

Justice as a question of piety vs. holiness

With it being Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, we preached on justice as our sermon...

January 20, 2013

Who is Romans 9:22-23 talking about? (A response to Greg Boyd)

I'm one of the "pod-rishioners" of the popular Michigan pastor Greg Boyd. One thing I...

January 18, 2013

Lance Armstrong and the need for grace

I'm not going to argue whether or not you should forgive Lance Armstrong or not...

January 17, 2013

Prayer: the antidote to suburgatory?

Some of you know that I hate living in suburgatory. I love the friends that...

January 17, 2013

Conservative & progressive Biblical interpretation in 16th century Spain

I’ve been reading Thomas Merton’s The Ascent to Truth while on retreat here at Richmond...

January 15, 2013

Original sin: What really happened in Eden?

On many movie DVD’s, there is an option to watch the film with a running...

January 12, 2013

Lust, patriarchy, and capitalism: a response to Dianna Anderson

I had an interesting twitter conversation today with a Christian feminist blogger named Dianna Anderson...

January 12, 2013

Canonical fidelity vs. empirical integrity (feminist theology and other challenges)

I just read a chapter in Adam Kotsko's Politics of Redemption which engages feminist critiques...

January 11, 2013

The Jeremiah Wrighting of Louie Giglio

When the outrage industrial complex tried to make Jeremiah Wright into the bogeyman who would...

January 10, 2013

Engaging Spiritual but not Religious #2: Too Hooked on Truth

The second testimony I wanted to engage claims that religious people are "too hooked on...

January 10, 2013

Original sin, part two: 1 Corinthians 15:22 and Ephesians 2:3

I put aside my original sin blog series idea for a while, but I'm preaching...

January 09, 2013

Engaging Spiritual but not Religious #1: God is a three-letter word

We're starting a sermon series this weekend called "Spiritual not religious." I've been a little...

January 08, 2013

Frantz Fanon and Isaiah 61

Isaiah 61 was the Daily Office Old Testament reading for today. Some of you will...

January 07, 2013

Talking atonement with the confirmands

Our youth pastor invited me today to talk about atonement with our confirmation class. As you...

January 06, 2013

So what about celibate gay bishops?

The Church of England decided this week to allow gay men who are in civil...

January 04, 2013

Vulnerability vs. decorum in public writing

This is kind of an open question to my readers. I got called out a...

January 04, 2013

Poor, blind, & dead: Jeff Dunn's "purpose-driven life"

On the same day that Jon Acuff wrote a self-affirmation about his success as a...

January 03, 2013

I don't hate Jon Acuff per se…

Today celebrity Christian blogger Jon Acuff posted a note to his "haters," which I guess...

January 03, 2013

"Without faith it is impossible to please God"

The Daily Office New Testament reading for today, Hebrews 11:1-11, includes a common proof-text for...

January 02, 2013

Lincoln: the authority of integrity vs. position-taking

I tend to be nonplussed as a matter of principle about patriotic piety over dead...

January 01, 2013

Holiday post-partum (two trance songs without words)

I'm in a holiday post-partum kind of mood. I made two trance songs about it...

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