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May 2017

May 01, 2017

Some Thoughts On The Relationship Between Bloggers And The Local Church

I watched a cyclone of furor erupt online last week in response to Tish Harrison Warren's...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

What Do Your Kids Know About Communion?

I taught Sunday School for years. The experience taught me a few things. One essential...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Back To Church?

I’ve been blogging for more than a decade,and I’ve written often about spiritual abuse by...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

The Gift of Context In Worship

One of many gifts my Jewish identity offered to me was the deep conviction that...

March 2016

March 07, 2016

Welcome To Post-Adulthood?

This recent Washington Post article highlights an idea foreign to the majority of us living...

February 2016

February 04, 2016

Unintended Consequences Of The Jesus Movement: Church by Org Chart

The middle-aged man stood before our group of mostly thirty-something congregational lay leaders and announced with...

January 2016

January 20, 2016

Can Two-Dimensional Non-Community Be Church?

In a world where many large Protestant churches livestream their services online, where both Catholic...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

What Kind Of Evangelical Am I?

(This post is part of the Patheos "Why I Am Still An Evangelical" conversation.) My...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

Forced Out In The Name Of “Reaching Young Families”

***My friend A. was an old hippie who looked a little like Jerry Garcia (the...

October 2014

October 10, 2014

Practicing Privilege In The Local Church

My friend B. had been a pastor for years before he stepped into the leadership...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

40+ And The Church / Listening To Millennials And Visa Versa

I've written a lot about the relationship between those at or beyond midlife with the...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

40+ And The Church / The Sermon Zone

At a social event last weekend, I ran into C., a woman I used to...

July 2014

July 13, 2014

Two Wildly Different, Strangely Similar Books Asking One Question: Who Am I?

It's complicated. No, that's not a Facebook update on my relationship status.* Recently, I wrote...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Come To The Table (Part 2)

Yesterday, I shared the first half of this fictional story about a once-powerful head pastor...

May 29, 2014

Come To The Table (Part 1)

Someone recently asked me who my blog readers are. It seems like many of them...

May 03, 2014

“The Church is the New Israel”: Ideas Have Consequences

Professor Diane Leclerc of Northwest Nazarene University has a piece up on the Christianity Today...

February 2014

February 07, 2014

Is this my seat at the kiddie table?

Just in time for this winter's epic Polar Vortex to swoop into town this winter...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Whose Gifts Are They Anyway?

I grabbed a paper cup and pumped hot coffee into it just as I did...

January 15, 2014

What Happens At Your Church After An Older Leader Hands Over The Mic?

Earlier this week, 78 year-old Dr. Tony Campolo announced he would be closing the doors of...

January 07, 2014

Does Biblical Community Happen When You Live Where Everyone Knows Your Name?

Every time I walk past an American Legion building in a nearby town, there are...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

Content Trumps Character? The Real Message Of Disclaimer Labels On Theological Books

The recent uproar surrounding charges of plagiarism swirling around some of Mark Driscoll (click here...

December 14, 2013

On Building Fences Around Fences (Part 2)

Click here to read part one of this post. It takes a lot of hard...

December 10, 2013

On Building Fences Around Fences (Part 1)

Recently, I ran across this list, reprinted from Wayne Grudem's* 2006 book about gender roles...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

No Swimming Allowed (Final)

Click here to read part one of this story I'm sharing as a response to the...

October 22, 2013

No Swimming Allowed (Part 2)

Click here to read part one of this story I'm sharing as a response to...

October 20, 2013

No Swimming Allowed (Part 1)

John MacArthur's recent Strange Fire conference was a hot topic around the Christian blogosphere last...

October 10, 2013

`Fess Up

"Do you have anything you'd like to confess to me before we begin?" An acquaintance...

October 05, 2013

Called to be the father?

You know how it is when you hear a sentence that simultaneously upends and undoes...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

Church Leader: What Happens To You When You Quit After Conflict?

When I read sad posts like this one from a former church leader who slowly...

September 08, 2013

Gifts Of A Pilgrim’s Road Trip Church Journey

For several years, I served as the Communications Director for a ministry that networked Evangelical...