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June 2013

June 04, 2013

The holiness of belonging to *this* world (with @BrianZahnd)

In Brian Zahnd's May 26th sermon "New Creation (Not Evacuation)," he confronts the neo-Gnosticism of...

May 2013

May 19, 2013

“I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh” (salvation AS Pentecost)

To prepare for Pentecost, I've been reading Pentecostal theologian Amos Yong's The Spirit Poured Out...

May 06, 2013

Christian man-feminism: allies and misogynists

Recently I've found myself called into conversation with the new evangelical feminist movement that has...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

Why I clash with the gatekeepers

I often clash with the gatekeepers of Christian orthodoxy. I'm sure that I get under...

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 14, 2013

Breathing kingdom on airplanes and elsewhere

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

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

Blog Resurrected: Help Me Make Some Choices!

It was really good to take a break for Lent. I did a lot of...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

Surprised by mercy: my train-wreck conversion story

I was invited to share an occasion when I was surprised by mercy. It was...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Sex-trafficking, colonialism, and miscommunication

I found a direct application that fleshes out a little better what I stumbled through...

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...

December 2012

December 22, 2012

Father Hopko vs. Wheaton College: Who gets to be orthodox?

Eastern Orthodox priest Father Thomas Hopko has a featured podcast on Ancient Faith Radio that...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Help me pick a subtitle for my book

I've been experimenting with different subtitles for my book Mercy not Sacrificeand I'm very interested...

November 28, 2012

Salvation from "getting saved": the first 6000 words

Getting saved. These two words describe the best-selling product of one of the most successful...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Why Al Mohler doesn’t get Rachel Held Evans

So Rachel Held Evans is apparently becoming this year's Rob Bell. She's written a book...

October 15, 2012

Everything I have belongs to You (a song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEte6_Si_4&feature=youtu.be This is the first song that I've written in two years. It's basically about...

October 09, 2012

How can Jerry Sandusky get into heaven?

Jerry Sandusky was on the TV at the gym this morning, since his sentencing is...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

Pigs to the water: the American exorcism

One of the most dramatic exorcisms of Jesus' ministry takes place in Mark 5 when...

September 17, 2012

Why we need to build this meme: #JesusIsMyCandidate

It was only supposed to be a catchy sermon series to attract attention for our...

April 2012

April 17, 2012

Opinion and relationship: the two American evangelical idolatries

Everyone else is writing about the “crisis” of American Christianity so I figured I’d add...

February 2012

February 05, 2012

Pastor Cheri

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

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 11, 2012

Selling sex in the Christian bookstore

All of a sudden, sex is everywhere in the Christian blogosphere. Seattle megachurch pastor Judah...

January 01, 2012

2011: the Year of the Hell Debate

2011 was a turbulent year for American evangelical Christian identity. A major lightning rod within...

August 2011

August 16, 2011

Anathematical: A New Category of Christian?

Along with fellow bloggers Kurt Willems and Carson Clark, I have been contemplating my identity...

August 14, 2011

Will God win or lose in November 2012?

I come from a long line of Texas Baptists, growing up in a world where...

July 2011

July 26, 2011

We can do better than "mainline"

I often tell people that fundamentalists and liberals frustrate me about equally. I just read...