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May 2013

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 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 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 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 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 20, 2013

Defining sin for adolescents

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

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 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 14, 2013

Breathing kingdom on airplanes and elsewhere

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

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 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

Five C’s of Christian Mansplanation

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

April 01, 2013

On Responsible Criticism and Hip Hop

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

February 2013

February 13, 2013

Why I need to give this up for Lent

Technically speaking, I shouldn't be writing this post, but I wanted there to be something...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

“I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?” (with a response from John Wesley)

You know the stereotype about the cheapskate Sunday lunch church crowd who shortchange servers on...

January 29, 2013

Rice Christians

I have gone on several short-term mission trips. I love going and think they're awesome,...

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 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 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 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 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 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...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Javert vs. Valjean: the two Christianities of Les Miserables

***Spoiler alert: this post presumes that you know the storyline of Les Miz.*** After watching...

December 26, 2012

Is it Christian to fire a sexy employee?

I wasn't going to blog this week and instead re-post old blogs from each of...

December 18, 2012

The moral question of gun collecting

The 2005 film "Thank You for Smoking" is about a tobacco PR executive who wins...