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February 2018

February 04, 2018

When Jesus Happens Into His Own Temple

The Feast of the Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple was on Friday,...

February 02, 2018

7 Guilty Takes

So Friday! How bout Takes? One My youngest child is turning seven a week from...

January 2018

January 28, 2018

Truth, Goodness, and Beauty at the Cross

One of the refrains Anthony Esolen returns to throughout Out of the Ashes is the...

January 14, 2018

Drag Queen Story Time Came To Binghamton

My has been, fading, rust belt town yesterday joined the ranks of those more cosmopolitan...

January 04, 2018

Will It Be The Year Of The Evangelical Woman?

Matt sent me this piece this morning. He's much better about breezing around the internet...

December 2017

December 19, 2017

Jen Hatmaker, President Trump, and the Incarnation

So many directions I could go I this morning. That train derailment is horrible and...

December 03, 2017

Hoping for the End in Advent

Advent is a pause, a breath, a consideration of time.

December 01, 2017

7 Takes to #NailedIt

It's Friday and that means Takes! One Welcome to all you who stumbled onto my...

November 2017

November 26, 2017

Treachery and Obedience on the Feast of Christ the King

It's the Feast of Christ the King again. You, like me, might not have been...

November 19, 2017

The Best Way to be Thankful

I don't know about you, but inevitably, in the mad dash from Thanksgiving to Christmas,...

November 05, 2017

They Always Make Us Switch The Clock On Sunday

The gathering of people into systems and groups makes visibly manifest the deep wickedness at...

October 2017

October 22, 2017

A Most Uncomfortable Feast

There are a lot of reasons not to go to church. It is inconvenient at...

October 15, 2017

Reading and Writing to Glory

Do more theology face to face, she admonishes, preferably over a good meal and a...

October 01, 2017

We Should Build A Tent For This

Something works. Something clicks into place. Some new understanding is gained, and I want to...

September 2017

September 24, 2017

Joy Deferred

At the center of the gospel is the longing for the one who comes after...

September 10, 2017

Even the Wind and the Waves Obey Him

You can respond to the weather, but the weather is never going to respond to...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

The Unhindered Leadership of Jen Hatmaker

She's right though. She does lead women. Right out of the center of the church...

August 20, 2017

A Practical Cure For Racism

I find racism the most boring of all idolatries. It's so facile, so cruelly obvious...

July 2017

July 14, 2017

7 Not Quite Quick Takes

Good Moaning. It's a cool, gray day, up here, how 'bout some Takes. One To...

July 13, 2017

The Message, the Belong Tour, and the Lost Millennial

So, it seems, that Eugene Peterson searched his feelings and discovered that the LGBT community...

July 04, 2017

3 Threads on the 4th of July

I went through my archives hoping to find that I'd already written something fascinating about...

July 02, 2017

Bread Is Easier

We at Good Shepherd have been going through Hebrews pretty methodically for a while now....

June 2017

June 25, 2017

When Millenials Get Married

Complaining is one of my most obvious spiritual gifts, my special charism, if you will....

June 18, 2017

How To Be A Good Father

The great tragedy of our times is that we still do need men, no matter...

June 08, 2017

An Infinite Line of Humanity Uncomfortable With Itself

In the spirit of inhabiting the spirit of the age I thought I might go...

June 04, 2017

A Word for the Preacher

Let there be no more pulpits filled with charlatans, cowards, liars, and hypocrites. Stand up...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Is the Ascension the Meanest Thing Ever?

By going to heaven, and sitting there on the right hand of the Father, Jesus...

May 21, 2017

The Water of Bitterness

It wouldn’t be God’s property always to have mercy if we were not always needing...

May 14, 2017

Mary and Martha on Mother’s Day

What is unusual about Martha is not her ‘rare capacity to work,’ it’s the fact...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Why the Movie Version is Always Terrible

It is always very hard for us to come up with a family movie that...