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January 2014

January 01, 2014

Five blogger’s resolutions

I suck at New Year's resolutions so usually I don't even try. But my buddy...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

The three “family values” behind Black Friday

As I was reading several interviews with people standing in line for this year's Black...

November 27, 2013

Another item for Dave Ramsey’s list of what rich people do that poor people don’t do

Dave Ramsey recently posted on his blog a list of 20 things that rich people...

November 18, 2013

Why James K.A. Smith should stay off of twitter

There are few things that make my blood boil more than to see someone take...

November 13, 2013

Lord, I thank you that I’m not like those people who thank God they’re not like other people

Our senior pastor Larry Buxton, who's a baseball nut, says that parables are supposed to...

November 05, 2013

A litmus test of Christian morality: the film North Country

My wife and I wanted to watch a light film at home this past Saturday...

November 04, 2013

Two things I had to ask my sons’ forgiveness for

My wife is the one who follows the parenting expert books that teach you better...

November 01, 2013

Budgeting as an act of social justice

It's stewardship season in many churches around the country. As my friend Jason Micheli wrote,...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Learning how to use authority responsibly

The Despised Ones are doing a synchroblog on leadership. I hate the idea of leadership....

October 16, 2013

A second chance to love a stranger

I got an email yesterday from a church member that made my heart swell and...

October 09, 2013

Sometimes customer service sucks, but sometimes you get a person like Tumeka

This is not the normal theological fare for my blog but yesterday I had an...

October 08, 2013

A Tale of Two Tables (reblogged from Heather Goodman)

[This is a reblog post from my friend Heather Goodman who describes experiencing a phenomenon...

October 05, 2013

Testimony of a happily married intersex eunuch (Lianne Simon’s story)

[This guest post comes from Lianne Simon, a woman who was born with sexual ambiguity...

October 04, 2013

Russell Moore vs. Pope Francis on evangelism

Only a Southern Baptist like Russell Moore would be crass enough to refer to a...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Can God make people who don’t fit our boxes? (The #transgender question)

When I was in my early twenties, I went through a David Bowie phase. I...

September 23, 2013

Evangelical Christianity and the millennial need to be special and important

First, I realize evangelicals or millennials are popular punching bags, and I'm not interested in...

September 19, 2013

C.S. Lewis talks about erotic love

This weekend, Burke United Methodist Church will continue in our sermon series on the four...

September 14, 2013

What does Pope Francis mean by telling atheists to “abide by their own consciences”?

Well Pope Francis probably made some more Christians angry this week with a 2500 word...

September 11, 2013

Two very different approaches to internet debate

I had two very different conversations on my comment threads yesterday with people who disagreed...

September 10, 2013

The Christian wife-spanking movement [TW]

I really don't know what to say. Victims of domestic violence probably shouldn't read this...

September 09, 2013

When friends are delivered from sin into fundamentalism

I'm hoping to write this in a vague enough way so as not to call...

September 05, 2013

“Biblical” men don’t date? (A face-palmer from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood)

Normally I don't see much of a point in engaging fundamentalist Christian entities like the...

September 04, 2013

Is authentic culture possible in an age of mirrors?

Please forgive me for mentioning the name Miley Cyrus again. In a recent MTV interview,...

September 02, 2013

The dignity of work in an age of free

Does everyone have the right to work? It seems like a good question for Labor...

September 02, 2013

Something to read whenever you’re feeling trollish

I've been reading a book called You are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier, a...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, and the death of eros

No, Will Smith and his family weren't actually watching Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke grind...

August 25, 2013

Yoder-gate: learning how to speak nonviolently

Sometime in the last couple of weeks, I got wind of the John Howard Yoder...

August 23, 2013

It just doesn’t work: concern trolling and public shaming

I got concern-trolled on my Jesus juke blog post yesterday by an anonymous commenter who...

August 21, 2013

Seven obnoxious Jesus jukes

The phrase "Jesus juke" was originally coined by Jon Acuff in a 2010 post on...

August 12, 2013

Feminism, sex, and virtue in Margaret Farley’s Just Love

I have been reading Margaret Farley's Just Love: A Framework for Christian Ethics, the book...