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March 2012

March 09, 2012

My 2nd Book is Officially in the Can: Check out Public Jesus

A few weeks ago I had a book project fall into my lap. One day...

March 08, 2012

The Future of Small Group Ministry:

You just know this isn't that far off for some small groups. BTW, it's not...

March 07, 2012

What is the President Really Like?: an insider’s take on Pres. Bush and Pres. Obama

I read two brief articles this morning, thought they were interesting, and wanted to pass...

March 06, 2012

Top 10 Grammatical Errors – errors of syntax

Don’t feel bad… we all have done it. The English language can be tough to...

March 05, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional

I confess I have never paid attention to leap day until this year, and then...

March 01, 2012

Are We Getting Dumber? – A New Feature Starts Today

Are we getting dumber? Seriously, are we as a species becoming less intelligent? Evolutionary scientists...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Beautiful Dangerous – a new EP from the John McKenna Band

It hurts to be lonelySo I keep on the moveDon’t want to feel the damage...

February 28, 2012

Franklin Graham Apologizes to President Obama for Questioning his Faith

Franklin Graham issued an apology today for his comments calling into question the veracity of...

February 27, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that I’m so into the Hunger Games trilogy that during prayers of the...

February 25, 2012

Richard Dawkins Bails on Atheism – He’ll make a better agnostic.

After the death of Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins was allowed to wear the title, “world’s...

February 24, 2012

Franklin Graham Steps In It: Does Faith Really Matter in Presidential Politics?

Franklin Graham made himself look silly on MSNBC the other day. Let me say up...

February 23, 2012

The Other Journal – Book Review of An Evangelical Social Gospel?

I was excited to hear about the book review written for The Other Journal, on...

February 23, 2012

5 Ways to Appear Smarter… meet 5 ways to actually become smarter!

I found this at Manpacks, a quirky site I check about once a week. It's...

February 22, 2012

How the Romantic Comedy Was Born (and how it relates to Lent)

In 1930 all of the major guilds of the motion picture industry ratified the Motion...

February 21, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional (Tuesday… again…)

I confess that I just spent a long weekend with my wife in New York...

February 19, 2012

Half of US Workers Don’t Take their Vacation Time

Vacation time is essential to a healthy work life. But, accordingto LA Times business writer...

February 16, 2012

Colbert Cancels Show Taping – Nobody’s Talking…

*Update: Huffington Post is saying that Colbert's Mother is sick, you can read about it...

February 16, 2012

Congressional Insider Trading – Our Representatives are Embarrassing Us

Checks and balances is an essential part of the genius of the American system, but...

February 15, 2012

Libertarianism and An Evangelical Social Gospel?

There is a nice book review of An Evangelical Social Gospel? up at libertarianchristians.comI think...

February 15, 2012

No traction for Secularism in the UK – Why?

Front page at The Independent today contains an interesting article by Peter Popham about secularism in...

February 14, 2012

My Name is Asher Lev

If you are a reader of fiction and have not yet read My Nameis Asher...

February 13, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that I’m genuinely sad that Whitney Houston has died. I continued to wish...

February 10, 2012

Christians Should Unite For This Election (Behind Stephen Colbert?)

That was supposed to be the headline for my recent article at the Huffington Post....

February 09, 2012

The End of Dispensationalism

There is no official church doctrine on the end times. It is a matter of...

February 08, 2012

How To Be Really Terrible at Interpreting the Bible

How are we supposed to read the bible?Is the bible self-interpreting? Or do we have...

February 07, 2012

Happy 15th Anniversary

So, fifteen years ago today I was a nervous wreck. I was about to be...

February 06, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that I finally got new jeans that seem to fit – American Eagle…...

February 05, 2012

Mormonism – not really considered to be among the fastest growing faiths

According to the official LDS church statistics for 2011 there are now over 6 million...

February 04, 2012

Polarize Everything!

Here is a great blog post by my used to be kid-next-door neighbor. Keith's all...

February 04, 2012

Always Sad to see the Football Season Go

This has been one of my favorite football seasons ever. Mostly because my oldest son...