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March 2024

March 18, 2024

Unless It Dies

As many of you know, I've been irritated by Glennon Doyle's mischaracterization of the concept...

March 11, 2024

A Happy Mistake

It occurred to me yesterday that Easter is just around the corner. For some reason,...

March 04, 2024

3 Ways To Become Sane

I fully intended to blog yesterday, in spite of its having been a Catechesis Formation...

February 2024

February 12, 2024

He Does Get You

My college-aged child has just had to write a paper for a class she is...

January 2024

January 22, 2024

The Paper Dolls of Polyamory

My new favorite podcast is the Theology Pugcast. I came across it in the midst...

November 2023

November 13, 2023

Give Me Oil For My Lamp

I happened to come across this article yesterday and found much of the response on...

November 06, 2023

Bodies Without Souls

Over on my Substack a while ago I freaked out my subscribers by divulging, in ominous...

September 2023

September 18, 2023

How Many Times?

I made the bold and sane choice yesterday of not waking up at 4 in...

April 2022

April 29, 2022

Five Things on Friday

It's Friday! Here are five really fast things before I get to the real business...

April 05, 2022

Sorry Sorry Sorry

First of all, this pithy thing is absolutely brilliant and reminded me that I should...

March 2022

March 22, 2022

Daily De-Affirmations

I'm trying to get up to speed on the Daily Affirmation trope that seems to...

February 2022

February 09, 2022

In The Kindest Way Possible

I honestly haven't had much time to notice anything online the last few days, except...

January 2022

January 14, 2022

No Really, We Do Have To Tell You About Jesus

Look! It's Friday! So that must mean something. I have a few thoughts about some...

January 07, 2022

Five Boring Thoughts About Rewards On Friday

There's a little dusting of snow, so that is pretty epic--that's a joke, it's not...

January 05, 2022

What Is A Pastor To Do?

Yesterday was a long day and so I am late bellying up to the morning...

December 2021

December 29, 2021

Make Every Day A Day Of Rest

I don't know if you've noticed, but the New Year is fast upon us. Like,...

December 02, 2021

The Windswept Plains of the Heart

My review of Wholehearted Faith and What Is God Like? went up yesterday (somehow I...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

You Can’t Channel Him Because He’s Not Dead

A dear and wonderful friend sent me an article about the most fantastical religious trend...

September 2021

September 02, 2021

Tweets for Thursday

If only Twitter were only about birds. I was going to do books for Thursday,...

July 2021

July 04, 2021

Happy Radical Dependence On God Day!

I'm over at Stand Firm today. It is the very early dawn and a firecracker...

June 2021

June 27, 2021

Do The Work

I'm over at Stand Firm today. The readings this morning are all about the rich and...

June 10, 2021

Bathsheba, the New Atheists, and All the Cheetahs

I haven't got a lot of time this morning because, well, we complicated everything by...

June 03, 2021

For Pride Month Eschew Pride

Don't worry, I'm not going to talk about Pride all month, even though it is...

June 02, 2021

Peonies and Pride Month

Well, it's pride month, which around here doesn't mean much because those little flags are...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

The Body Does Matter

I was reading a lot of LeaveLoud tweets and feeling very discouraged about the state...

May 20, 2021

A Broom and a Tax Collector

"She cleaned other people's houses, her own she could not clean." That was my thought...

May 19, 2021

I’m Not Angry With You For Being Angry

Besides finishing Phineas Redux and immediately downloading and hitting play on The Prime Minister, at...

May 06, 2021

If You Don’t Want To Buy A “Nap Dress” You Can Try Reading Your Bible

Update: The tweet I talk about below, attributed to Chelsea Clinton, is probably not by...

May 04, 2021

If You’re All By Yourself

I know I linked this yesterday—did I? can’t even remember—but then I went back and...

May 02, 2021

He is Awesome in His Deeds

I'm over at Stand Firm this morning. I had three different posts started for this...