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December 2013

December 02, 2013

Embracing irrelevance this Advent

Henri Nouwen's book In The Name of Jesus names three temptations for Christian leaders based...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Fasting, my iPhone, and praying Hebrew

I've contributed a guest post today at Suzannah Hartzell Paul's blog about my strange spiritual...

September 2013

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 03, 2013

The film Elysium and the conquest of Canaan

After reading a blog post by my brother Micah Murray, I decided to check out...

August 2013

August 23, 2013

25 other blogs you need to check out and vote up!!!

It's a total fluke that I'm at #6 on a top Christian blogs list. I...

August 23, 2013

Vote for my blog please!!!

I imagine that I'll draw some more trolls who are "concerned" about my lust for...

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 03, 2013

How I will bring my Ninja skills to #WildGoose13

If you're coming to Wild Goose, please sign up for the potluck!

July 2013

July 28, 2013

Should allies “stay angry”? Putting @RachelHeldEvans in conversation with the Blerd Theologian @rtrdh

Should Christians "stay angry" at the injustice in our world? That's a question raised in...

July 13, 2013

What I will share at Wild Goose (the written version)

At 5:30 pm on Friday, August 9th of this year, I will be at the...

July 10, 2013

Henri Nouwen on a good teacher’s “articulate not-knowing”

Many Christians operate under the premise that humanity is so thoroughly wicked and corrupt that...

July 09, 2013

Music video for my song “Our Father” by someone I never met

The pastor of Scottsdale Congregational United Church of Christ found my track "Our Father" on...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

Monday Merton 6.24.13: Mercy

This week's Monday Merton is taken from chapter 11 of No Man Is An Island,...

June 07, 2013

Can we have a real conversation about civil liberties now that the government is spying on white people too?

It's quite the ideological whiplash to transition from the outrage over the Boston marathon bombing...

June 02, 2013

Viaje Dominicano 2013 #6: Un cumpleaños memorable

[Today's entry comes from Erin Lauer whose daughter Anna celebrated her eighth birthday yesterday with...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Viaje Dominicano #3: My God is a great big God

[I decided to take a Sabbath from the blog for the rest of my mission...

May 26, 2013

The fate of “those who destroy the Earth”: Revelation 11:18

While I'm down here in the Dominican Republic, I've been reading some theology books in...

May 12, 2013

My mommy was my first pastor

This is a picture of my mom holding my son Isaiah two summers ago. I...

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 20, 2013

So what about other religions?

We've been having a very stimulating conversation at our confirmation retreat that has completely derailed...

April 12, 2013

Airplane evangelism: Rachel Held Evans vs. Ray Comfort

Rachel Held Evans just wrote a very honest and humble piece about wrestling with the...

April 10, 2013

Why should I read DeLeuze?

I listen to a Christian hipster podcast called Homebrewed Christianity. They were recently part of...

April 05, 2013

James KA Smith summarizes the battle of the 21st century

I've just started reading James KA Smith's new book Imagining the Kingdom. Smith's basic argument...

April 04, 2013

Should I convict other people of their sin?

One of the litmus tests that evangelicals make when we evaluate a potential church family...

April 02, 2013

Fleeing the wrath to come vs. hearing the voice of love

A few months ago, a friend wrote a blog asking whether the teachings of Henri...

April 01, 2013

On Responsible Criticism and Hip Hop

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

January 2013

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 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...

December 2012

December 23, 2012

Word, life, light: the eternal side of Christmas

I decided to do something different for my LifeSign sermon this weekend. Normally for Christmas,...

December 16, 2012

The moral crisis of mental illness

When we admit that mental illness has been a factor in many of the mass...