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December 2021

December 14, 2021

What About the Real Problems that are Driving People to Deconstruct?

It was a "Farewell Rob Bell" moment for the neo-Reformed harbingers of orthodoxy. I have...

July 2019

July 03, 2019

Christianity Shouldn’t Be Infused With Politics—It Is a Politic

“Christianity is mostly a matter of politics—politics defined by the gospel. The call to be...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

Why Do the Nations Rage?

"So, I refuse to rage with our nation. I will get on with the hard...

July 2018

July 21, 2018

Faith Isn’t Just About Beliefs: Faith is About the Direction You Are Moving In Your Life

History always has its thought police--the people who want to force others to submit...

July 02, 2018

Monday Morning Confessional: My Summer Reading List Thus Far

I confess that I've got a bunch of books going at once right now. This...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

Wednesday Wisdom: No Truth? No Justice? No Peace.

Peace is not pragmatic. It's not a strategy or procedure put into effect in order...

March 2018

March 25, 2018

Reading Resident Aliens for Palm Sunday

If I could require every Christian to read one book about the gospel, the church...

December 2017

December 18, 2017

What is a Prophet?

I grew up among Southern Baptists who taught me that the main thing prophets did...

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 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...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

Treasure the Doing, More than the Getting It Done

The source of nearly all human misery can be traced back to an often unconscious...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

Sabermetrics and John the Baptist: A Sermon for Advent

In 1971 a Lawrence man named Bill James was the last person from the state...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

10 Great Quotes on Thanksgiving and Gratitude

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is...

November 24, 2015

Liz Kanoy, Editor at Crosswalk, Has a Thoughtful Article on My Piece On the Language of Terrorism

Liz Kanoy, an editor at Crosswalk.com, is one of the writers I check in with...

November 16, 2015

Dear France: Don’t Make the Same Mistake We Did

It’s Not War, It’s Murder: Why the Language We Use about Terrorist Attacks Really Matters. ...

November 12, 2015

Sneak Peek at the Missional Leadership & Discipleship Course Next Semester at NTS

The mission of God is unmanageable. This is where the conversation about missional leadership begins. When...

May 2015

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 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...

April 13, 2015

What Role Does Dread Play in Your Life? – Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that I went to a gathering of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies...

February 2015

February 02, 2015

Conversations We Should Be Having About War

This is an excerpt of an article that just went up at Onfaith. Conversations We Should...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Is There Any Hope for Peace in the New Year?

--- “Bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics. You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

Resident Aliens 25 Years Later: Stanley Hauerwas & William Willimon at Duke’s 2014 Convocation

I spent the past couple of days at Duke University listening in on conversations between...

October 03, 2014

Favorite Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

If I had to pick one theologian who has had the most influence on my...

September 2014

September 20, 2014

Corporations Aren’t People, Money Isn’t Speech: Citizens United & the Heresy of Corporate Personhood

More Americans believe in witchcraft, ghosts, and UFOs than agree with Citizens United. When 80%...

September 11, 2014

ISIS, Syria, Israel, 9/11, Ray Rice, Pistorius, Ferguson: Stanley Hauerwas & the Freedom to Hope

The website Newseum.org lets me peruse snaps-shots of today’s front pages from over a thousand...

September 09, 2014

Shrink by Tim Suttle (book trailer)

I believe in the church maybe more than I believe in any other thing in...

September 05, 2014

The Rare Leadership Virtue of Patience

"The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all...

September 01, 2014

Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that Shrink is set to release tomorrow. So I'm probably going to talk...

August 2014

August 14, 2014

It’s a Bizarre Time to be Living on the Border of Kansas and Missouri

I live in Kansas City, where the line between Kansas and Missouri is somewhat obscured....

June 2014

June 12, 2014

Justice is Not Important For It’s Own Sake: Abraham Joshua Heschel on Social Justice

“He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require...