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October 2017

October 22, 2017

Why I’m not taking my blog down from Patheos even though they hired Mark Driscoll

I'm not a woman. That means that misogynist ex-pastor Mark Driscoll's words do not violate...

April 2016

April 07, 2016

Can Jesus save us from our gated communities? #EmptyNotClean

From now until the release of my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us,...

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...

October 30, 2013

Mark Driscoll’s “working class” bloody Old Testament Jesus

I'm not a pacifist or a pansy (other than the fact that I'm not very...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Should women cover their heads in church?

The latest movement in neo-patriarchal evangelicaldom is a call for women to return to covering...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Privilege and Biblical interpretation

This is a post where I'm raising a question that I flat-out don't know the...

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...

January 2013

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...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

Four Cringe-worthy Claims of Popular Penal Substitution Theology

I've often wondered if the same thing that makes violent video games appealing is why...

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 25, 2012

Is Mark Driscoll closer to John Wesley than we are?

The latest blogosphere controversy involving Mark Driscoll concerns the church discipline practices at his church...

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 09, 2012

Alpha Male vs. Man of God

What is the difference between an alpha male and a man of God? I'm finding...

January 05, 2012

Why gender hierarchy makes no Biblical sense to me

My wife and I decided to do something bold for our wedding. Each of us...

October 2011

October 13, 2011

Does God hate people? (A response to Mark Driscoll)

Mark Driscoll created another controversy recently in a sermon when he told his listeners that...

August 2011

August 14, 2011

Michelle Bachmann on submitting to her husband

OK, I admit it. I used Michelle Bachmann's name in the title of my blog...

August 03, 2011

Where I agree with Mark Driscoll: Judgment As Solidarity

I was originally thinking about going after Mark Driscoll's complementarianism by comparing him with Juan...