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September 2015

September 16, 2015

The American Justice System Isn’t Broken – It’s Doing Exactly What It’s Designed to Do

"I think our criminal justice system is working as intended. It is only broken to...

September 12, 2015

Who Would You Be If You Lost It All?

Who would you be if you lost it all? I save great questions in the back...

September 11, 2015

What We Lost on 9/11 Was Our Sense of Security, & It Never Came Back. What Took Its Place was Fear.

When we awoke on that morning we all knew we were basically safe & sound. When we...

September 10, 2015

Kim Davis’ Hypocrisy Began the Moment She Became an Agent of the State

I've honestly been trying not to weigh in on the Kim Davis situation, because the...

September 07, 2015

Top 10 Worst Companies in CEO-to-Worker Salary Ratio: You Probably Use Them All

Organized labor has seen better days. Plagued by political corruption, changing economic realities, and poor leadership,...

September 02, 2015

Kanye’s VMA Speech Is Getting Lots of Love – Not From Me

I keep seeing media sites taking Kanye's VMA speech seriously. The worst offender is Slate, and...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Concussions and Football: Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that football season is here, so it's time for my yearly confession that...

August 28, 2015

The End of Revenge: Nonviolence & the American Fascination With Getting Even

When Vester Lee Flanagan left behind his attempts to explain the unexplainable—the reason he shot two...

August 26, 2015

J.R. Woodward Engages With Shrink at the V3 Blog Today

I am excited to see that J.R. Woodward at V3 Church Planting Movement is engaging with Shrink on...

August 24, 2015

Do You Feel the Love? I Feel the Love: Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that once I get The Mowgli's song San Francisco stuck in my head, it...

August 21, 2015

How Limits Lead to Freedom, a Practical Exercise: The Purge

Yesterday I wrote a post about what makes for human freedom. Most of us uncritically...

August 20, 2015

What is the Path to Human Freedom? (It’s Not What You Think It Is)

Freedom is a big deal in our culture—the founding virtue of American society—despite the fact...

August 18, 2015

What Ever Happened to the News?: How the Internet Transformed Ephemera into Journalism

I'm finding it harder and harder to read the news these days. Mostly I cycle...

August 07, 2015

Road Trip Hacks: Family Vacation 03

If you are like me, and childhood memories of being bored stiff while your parents observed the...

August 04, 2015

Watching The Goonies With My Kids: Family Vacation 02

We watched The Goonies as a family last night. 30 years after it first came...

August 02, 2015

Top 10 Favorite Candy Bars of All Time: Family Vacation 01

So we are on family vacation right now, and I typically suspend all pretense of eating...

July 2015

July 22, 2015

Why the Church Is In Decline…

I love the church. I believe in the church. I believe in the church maybe...

July 02, 2015

When I Talk About Race I Feel Like a Phony: The Problem of Being White & Talking About Racism

Many black leaders have been bitterly disappointed that President Obama has not shown more leadership...

July 01, 2015

2015 Missio Alliance North American Gathering

Missio Alliance just posted the audio files from their North American gathering held in Alexandria,...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Wise Words from an Ex-Cop: The Police Guardian v. The Police Warrior

"Officers... must realize that the public—even a group of non-compliant teenagers—are not an enemy to be...

June 05, 2015

10 Great Words You Should Know & Use

One doesn’t have a good vocabulary; one maintains a good vocabulary. Evelyn Waugh was right...

June 03, 2015

Anne Lamott on Perfectionism

"Perfectionism is another way we avoid vulnerability, and it also happens to be my favorite...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

How does the word Christian modify the word Leader?

Nearly every pastor or ministry leader I've ever met operates under the same underlying assumption that...

May 14, 2015

Why the “Big Drop in Share of Americans Calling Themselves Christian” Isn’t Our Problem

The New York Times reported earlier this week on the sharp decline in the number of...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Monday Morning Confessional: Frederick Buechner, and Listening to Your Life

I confess that a friend of mine just picked up Listening to Your Life: Daily...

April 22, 2015

Nazarene Controversy Highlighted in The Daily Beast: Here’s My Take…

I'm just going to give you my take on this, then link back to the...

April 22, 2015

Earthday: Why Christians are so Bad on the Environment

Do you know what scientists commonly call ecological studies? Dissipation studies: Terrestrial field dissipation studies,...

April 20, 2015

New Shrink Video Releases Today: A Creative Introduction

Author readings are all over youtube.com, but I've never seen an author take any care...

April 17, 2015

Everyday Sundays: Frederick Buechner on Why the Subdued Sundays of Eastertide are So Important

In his sermon "The Secret in the Dark," Frederick Buechner wonders at why in the...

April 17, 2015

3 Myths About Calling: Why RELEVANT’s Take Falls Short

Let me start by confessing a pet peeve: I believe that the combined Jewish and...