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November 2015

November 23, 2015

ISIS and Refugees: How Confidence in Christ and a Sense of Mission Help Us Say “No” to Fear

Islamophobia has no place in the life of a Christian who has been given the...

November 23, 2015

Seeing in Syrian Refugees the Face of Christ

I dare you to watch these precious souls fleeing danger and fear, their children in...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Rob Schenck’s Consistently Prolife Ethic (Guns, Abortion, and All) in THE ARMOR OF LIGHT

Editor's Note: This piece is part of a conversation Patheos is hosting on the new...

October 05, 2015

A Salute to Henning Mankell

One of my favorite genres of fiction is Nordic noir, and one of my favorite...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

#PrayerforEveryone: September 24-October 1

From September 24-October 1, the ONE Campaign (with other partners) is encouraging faith communities to...

September 15, 2015

Patriots (Not Pinheads) and the Right Side of History: Racism and Self-Justification

At the Montana Book Festival this weekend, I attended a panel called "Race, Privilege, and...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

Show Me a Hero: HBO’s Zeitgeisty Historical Miniseries Deals with Housing Desegregation in the ’80s

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," F. Scott Fitzgerald said....

August 20, 2015

Straight Outta Compton: Some Truth, But Too Much Hagiography

I went to Straight Outta Compton (directed by F. Gary Gray) this week because I...

August 17, 2015

With Pathos and Humor, The Skeleton Twins Evokes Water as Both Life and Death

Water can mean death. It can be a place of drowning, suicide, natural disaster. For...

August 03, 2015

Blood Brother: A Documentary That Shows How Deeds Can Preach

Rocky Braat, a pretty ordinary young American man, goes to India with a friend. He...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Homage to a Broken Man: A Biography I Could Not Put Down

Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold fascinated me, frustrated me,...

July 27, 2015

Creativity–and Goals for This Blog

This weekend, I spent a large portion of time binge-watching HBO's The Newsroom, which just...

July 20, 2015

The Saddening, Dangerous Remarks of Franklin Graham

On July 17, Franklin Graham made some deeply disturbing remarks on his Facebook page. This...

July 06, 2015

Petition the Obama Administration on Behalf of South Sudan

This month, President Obama will be in Ethiopia and Kenya. During this visit, he has...

July 03, 2015

Nick Kristof: Faith Motivates People to Serve Those in Desperate Need

I have heard previously Nick Kristof talk about his admiration for the way that people...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Some Good Reading on the SCOTUS Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

I'm sure some of my readers have been wondering when I'm going to write about...

June 23, 2015

Personal Responsibility and Systemic Sin

One of the major problems in American Christian thought today is forced dichotomies where they...

June 22, 2015

The False God of “Cool”: Image Consciousness and the Church

If there is anything that we as humans are prone to do, it's this: set...

June 19, 2015

In Awe of the Christian Saints of Charleston

Nine died during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South...

June 08, 2015

Suggest a Topic for Me to Blog

Sometimes I have loads of ideas for blogging. Sometimes I sit at my keyboard staring...

June 01, 2015

Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”: Graduation, Privilege, and Our Meta-Narratives

Most likely, everything you know about Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,”...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Leah Libresco’s Arriving at Amen: Tradition, Freshly Articulated

Before I came to Patheos, I heard blogger Leah Libresco's story of conversion from atheism...

May 28, 2015

Beats of the Antonov (Seattle International Film Festival)

While in Seattle last week, I had the opportunity to visit the Seattle International Film...

May 27, 2015

Follow-up Interview with Debra Hirsch

Earlier this month, I reviewed Debra Hirsch's helpful book Redeeming Sex. I was left with...

May 25, 2015

“Thin Places” on the Streets of Seattle

This weekend in downtown Seattle, I forgot the most important thing about talking to angry...

May 18, 2015

G-Dog: Christian Love in Action

Streaming on Netflix right now is a moving documentary about Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit...

May 11, 2015

Rachel Held Evans: Willing to Be a Messy Christian for the Sake of a Messy World

Rachel Held Evans wrestles with the Church and with faith and she does it publicly....

May 11, 2015

An Open Letter of Gratitude to Police Officers

Dear police officers: I feel like this needs to be said. I've spent plenty of...

May 06, 2015

Redeeming Sex by Debra Hirsch

I opened my review copy of Debra Hirsch's Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations about Sexuality and...

May 02, 2015

How God Changed My Heart about Systemic Racism

I'm going to make an embarrassing admission. I did not really understand the deep concerns...

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