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May 2018

May 02, 2018

Is Jesus on the Psych Ward?

I have the pleasure of sharing a great conversation I had with my good friend...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

Lee Wyatt’s Gospel for People Who Aren’t Guilt-Ridden

My Facebook friend Lee Wyatt has written a book called The Incredible Shrinking Gospel about the...

August 2016

August 12, 2016

Mark Yaconelli’s The Gift of Hard Things

It's clear that Mark Yaconelli is a spiritual director from his storytelling. He does with...

August 08, 2016

Liz Edman: queer pride vs. Christian empire

This June, I had one of the most epic conversations of my life in a...

April 2016

April 03, 2016

Can religion be an addiction? (Reviewing Elizabeth Esther’s Spiritual Sobriety)

Elizabeth Esther grew up in a fundamentalist Christian cult. Her upbringing left her not only...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

Water To Wine: the salvation of a megachurch pastor

For the past several years, Brian Zahnd has been like an abbott to me. Every week,...

December 2015

December 28, 2015

Four women with books that heal

Over the past month and a half, I've read four books by four very different...

December 11, 2015

Why white Christians need to read Ta-nehisi Coates this Advent

Over the course of this fall, I have been working through Ta-nehisi Coates' book Between...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

Five favorite quotes from Mandy Smith’s The Vulnerable Pastor

I first encountered Mandy Smith at the 2014 Ecclesia National Gathering where she preached an...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Why your church men’s group needs to read Nate Pyle’s Man Enough

I wonder how many other men out there feel as unmanly as I...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

How to create sanctuary in our lives (with Terry Hershey)

This week I've been reading Terry Hershey's book Sanctuary as part of our Patheos book...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Did God or Satan tell David to take a census? Progressive revelation & Derek Flood’s Disarming Scripture

If God tells you to sin, is it still a sin? What if God tells...

September 2014

September 12, 2014

Ben Corey’s Undiluted: An Accessible Escape-Hatch for Disaffected Fundamentalists

A book title about Jesus called Undiluted can make you roll your eyes at first if...

August 2014

August 25, 2014

Teach us to want: the quest to transcend evangelical moralism

"I was beginning to confidently believe that the only way of discerning what God wanted...

May 2014

May 13, 2014

Fly A Little Higher: the story of Zach Sobiech

A little more than a year ago, I discovered the music of Zach Sobiech, a...

May 02, 2013

Jonathan Martin’s Prototype: Salvation as the Restoration of Humanity

It's a strange and beautiful thing to hear someone preaching your own thoughts in a...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Review: The Awakening of Hope by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

The Awakening of Hope, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s new book, is a breath of fresh air in...