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November 2017

November 30, 2017

A New Normal: Grief and Facing the Brokenness in Evangelicalism

My heart has ached and almost broken as I have seen leaders I admired again...

November 03, 2017

#Loser: How the Call of Christ Is Antithetical to Trump’s Gospel

Donald Trump's Gospel is as follows: success means being dominant over everyone else, at all...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

Conflict and Challenge, instead of Cheap Grace

"Don't hate," the Facebook commenter said to me after I stated a position about a...

October 07, 2017

What My LGBT Neighbors Teach Me

I want to talk about something that has been on my heart for...

September 2017

September 23, 2017

“No Fair!”: A God Who Longs to Show Mercy–To Illegal Immigrants, ISIS, and You and Me

The Bible passages for today can be found here. This week, I heard a story...

September 14, 2017

Christian Superiority Complexes and the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

We don’t think we need the mercy of God. We don’t think we need the...

September 09, 2017

Wildfires, Hurricanes, and Ezekiel’s Unheeded Warning

I'm going to try something for a while, in an effort to engage more constructively...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Jessica Fulford: What Working With Kosovar Albanian Muslims Taught Me about Loving Refugees

This guest post is by a dear friend of mine, Jessica Fulford. She is one...

June 2017

June 13, 2017

Praying the Serenity Prayer in an Unjust World

In the past couple of years, I have gone through the shattering experience of seeing...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Assumptions: A Podcast in Which an Atheist and a Christian Talk about Stories

Did you guys know that this is not the only place on the internet where...

April 2017

April 20, 2017

Resources for Christians Learning about Race, Class, Poverty, and Justice

It is easy to overestimate what we think we understand about another human being's experience,...

April 10, 2017

A Man Called Ove: Neighbors Are Our Lifeblood

The best way I can describe the Swedish film, A Man Called Ove, is this:...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Biblically, Is There Such a Thing as Communal Sin?

There is scarcely anything a Western Christian will resist more than the pointing out of...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

The Plight of Refugees–the Risk and the Call of Christ

How should Christians respond to the Trump administration executive order relevant to refugees? In the...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

A Celebrity Assaulted Me. I Never Told. Here’s Why (An Anonymous Guest Post)

Note from Rebecca: This past week, I was approached by a friend who asked if...

August 2016

August 09, 2016

The Bicycle Thief: Humanizing Criminal and Crime Victim

This post is part of a ten-part series drawing from the Arts and Faith Top...

July 2016

July 16, 2016

My Words Are Not Enough

Readers, with each new tragedy and act of violence that hits the news, my words...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

Babette’s Feast: New Creation and Easter’s Resurrection

This post is part of a ten-part series drawing from the Arts and Faith Top...

March 02, 2016

THE SEVENTH SEAL, the Hiddenness of God, and the Inescapability of Death

This post is part of a ten-part series drawing from the Arts and Faith Top...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

IKIRU: “To Live” as God’s Mask

This post is part of a ten-part series drawing from the Arts and Faith Top...

December 2015

December 14, 2015

The Blessing of Serving Refugees

I am blessed to know a number of people who have served refugees. The truth...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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