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April 2012

April 14, 2012

"Government handouts" that "create dependency"

When some people talk about taxes and government programs for poor people, they often talk...

April 13, 2012

“The land is Mine” (the importance of Leviticus 25:23)

Last night, as I was looking at the passage about the year of jubilee in...

April 13, 2012

"The land is Mine" (the importance of Leviticus 25:23)

Last night, as I was looking at the passage about the year of jubilee in...

April 13, 2012

Considering Rick Warren’s Economic Principles

America's most famous megachurch pastor Rick Warren has gotten backlash in the Prospect, Daily Kos,...

April 11, 2012

John Derbyshire & me: confessions of a fellow racist

John Derbyshire's now-infamous article from last week's Taki's Magazine has pretty thoroughly torpedoed any claim...

April 11, 2012

God’s tornadoes: when I stopped taking John Piper seriously

I imagine it's no surprise that a Methodist pastor would consider the dean of the...

April 11, 2012

God's tornadoes: when I stopped taking John Piper seriously

I imagine it's no surprise that a Methodist pastor would consider the dean of the...

April 09, 2012

In the name of the Thinktank, Consultant, & Bubble sheet

The United Methodist Church is about to have a very significant international meeting called the...

April 08, 2012

How do we get you back next week?

Let me be honest. Easter is a bittersweet holiday for me as a pastor because...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Why I’m fasting from blogging for Lent

This Lent, I have decided to fast from social media and blogging. I wanted to...

February 21, 2012

Beauty will save the world #3: the axis of love

It continues to blow my mind how timely Brian Zahnd's book Beauty Will Save the...

February 20, 2012

We are not all Catholic now

I'm sitting in the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC....

February 18, 2012

Persecution and epistemic closure

Epistemic closure is a recently defined philosophical term that describes someone who is so thoroughly...

February 16, 2012

Like Religious Freedom? Wear Ashes on Wednesday!

There's been a lot of talk about religious freedom over the past couple of weeks....

February 12, 2012

Deliver us from evil

Sermon preached 2/11-12/2012 at Burke UMC Text: Matthew 4:1-11 “Lead us not into temptation, but...

February 11, 2012

Letter of a Christian martyr — Father Christian de Cherge

With all the buzz about Christians being persecuted in the world (real and imagined), I...

February 10, 2012

Opportunistic "persecution"

Normally on Fridays I don't write anything on my blog because I'm hard at work...

February 09, 2012

What makes pregnancy a disease?

In protesting the Obama Administration's new decision to treat contraception as preventative medicine, Archbishop Timothy...

February 06, 2012

Sharing the gift of God’s forgiveness

Sermon preached at Burke United Methodist Church 2/4-5/2012 Text: Matthew 18:21-35 Is everyone familiar with...

February 05, 2012

Pastor Cheri

I've decided to take a risk and share truthfully about a phase in my Christian...

February 04, 2012

Stop Abusing the Word "Biblical"!

I've got some prophetic fire that I need to let out so I'm going to...

February 02, 2012

On preaching for the self-righteous bogeyman

It’s very easy to write a mediocre sermon about forgiveness. I’m already halfway down the...

February 01, 2012

Beauty will save the world #2: On regaining wonder

The second chapter of Beauty Will Save the World is about rediscovering the concept of...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Beauty Will Save the World #1: Beauty over Conquest

The title of Brian Zahnd's brand new book Beauty Will Save the World is taken...

January 29, 2012

The Bread that makes us one

Sermon preached at Burke UMC LifeSign service 1/28/2012 Text: Exodus 16 I’ve got a daily...

January 25, 2012

Is Mark Driscoll closer to John Wesley than we are?

The latest blogosphere controversy involving Mark Driscoll concerns the church discipline practices at his church...

January 24, 2012

Helplessness: the foundation of prayer

My prayer life sucks! There, I admitted it. I don't pray nearly enough. I even...

January 22, 2012

Integrity in a post-truth world

I'm worried about our country. A few years ago, I read a book called The...

January 21, 2012

Vulnerability and leadership

Any of you who have read my blog before know that I place a lot...

January 19, 2012

Why I love religion and love Jesus: new video

Latest development in the love/hate religion/Jesus controversy: Catholic priest rapper Father Pontifex has a banging,...

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