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November 2017

November 07, 2017

Stanley Hauerwas: A Prayer on Election Day

I've been using Stanley Hauerwas' Prayers Plainly Spoken to guide me every morning for the...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

My 25 Favorite Biographies from the Past Few Years

A good biography is a great way to study history. I’ve almost always got a...

October 21, 2017

Rich Mullins Would’ve Been 62 Today – Watch This, It’ll Do Your Heart Good

One of the things I loved about Rich Mullins was the way he refused to buy...

October 19, 2017

Stanley Hauerwas: A Prayer for Our Enemies As We Are All Learning How to Hate

We are all learning how to hate. That is to say, we are all being...

October 10, 2017

Do Things Like Income Inequality and Tax Reforms Really Matter to God?

During the Civil War both sides of the conflict were convinced that God was on...

October 03, 2017

Top 25 Tom Petty Songs of All Time

Tom Petty taught me what Rock and Roll was all about. I think I was...

October 02, 2017

Let Us Prove by the Way We Love Each Other That the Light Is Winning Despite this Act of Madness

Don’t get used to this violence. This not how it has to be. Don't tune...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

To Kneel Is Human, to Listen Is Divine

What if they kneel because we're not listening? What if they kneel because it's the...

September 22, 2017

Economics as America’s Sovereign Religion: Is it Time for a Reformation?

The most powerful religion in the Western world is no longer Christianity. It is economics. It can...

September 20, 2017

Reading the Bible Through Neuroscience: Is Your Brain Different From Moses’ Brain?

What can neuroscience teach us about how to read the Bible?

September 18, 2017

Rich Mullins Died 20 Years Ago Today and I’m Still Not Over It

When I listen to Rich Mullins’ music (and I still listen), he makes me want...

September 14, 2017

Stop Blaming the Politicians – We Are the Reason Washington is Such a Mess

There's a theory that contends politicians don't lead the culture. Politicians reflect the culture. Washington isn't leading...

September 11, 2017

Why Do I Write All These Sad Songs?

"What came first: the music or the misery?" - Nick Hornby I cut my...

September 07, 2017

The Nashville Statement and the Evangelical Parents of Gay Children

I've been avoiding the Nashville Statement. But I finally broke down and read the thing this...

September 05, 2017

DACA Is Literally the Least We Can Do: Here’s Why Ending It Is Stupid

Meet Larissa Martinez. She was the 2016 valedictorian of McKinney Boyd High School, and is on full...

September 04, 2017

Labor Unions are Back In: And they have Never Been More Important

Did you know that the entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby's? Election year bluster aside,...

September 01, 2017

The Economy No Longer Works for Average People. Here’s Why.

It's clear that rich people are the only ones getting richer. Here's why.

August 2017

August 30, 2017

America’s Wisdom Problem

Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned about societies that lose access to wisdom.

August 29, 2017

Ex-White Nationalist Derek Black’s Unique Perspective on Trump’s Rhetoric

I've got a podcast to recommend. It's called The Daily, from The New York Times. I...

August 25, 2017

The Numbers Say Evangelicals are Losing Faith in Trump … I don’t Buy It

"White Christian conservatives were Trump’s largest single voting bloc: bigger than the “white working...

August 24, 2017

How to Pray When You Don’t Believe in God: Some Perspective from Frederick Buechner

On my sabbatical I've been slowly reading back through the trilogy of Frederick Buechner's memoirs....

August 23, 2017

Reporters Are Actually Forced to Have Integrity – Here’s How It Works

I'm so tired of hearing the fake news meme, especially because true reporters are actually...

May 2017

May 20, 2017

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s advice for Graduates who are Trying to Discern the Will of God

"This must be God's will" is a phrase often used to cover all manner of...

May 11, 2017

Is This What Revolution Looks Like? If So, the Church Is Blowing It.

Corporations have slowly, silently, and effectively seized the mechanisms of government, and corrupted them to...

May 01, 2017

A Fanatical Devotion to Death

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote about what he termed: a fanatical devotion to death. He wrote, "When...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

10 Stunning Facts About Davinci’s Last Supper for Maundy Thursday

Every year on Maundy Thursday our church does a short visio divina around Leonardo DaVinci's...

April 10, 2017

When ISIS Bombs a Church on Palm Sunday, What’s their Endgame, and How Can We Subvert it?

The ISIS endgame is a hustle: carry out acts of violence so despicable that they...

April 04, 2017

“I’ve Seen Too Much Hate to Want to Hate … Hate is Too Great a Burden to Bear”

It's grief that you are feeling; a deep sorrow, a keen mental suffering, a sharp...

March 2017

March 26, 2017

6 Surprisingly Sane Habits to Help Your Daily Productivity

I have a complicated relationship with productivity. On one hand, productivity can be about redeeming the...

March 10, 2017

I Am Surrounded by Neighbors, and I Am Grateful

I'm sitting here in my office on a Friday morning, trying to make myself work....