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March 2016

March 18, 2016

Ozu’s Tokyo Story and the Struggle to Honor Our Parents

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

March 14, 2016

How Do We Make America Great Again? Repent

I am mourning for America today. I am mourning because so many have abdicated the...

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...

January 23, 2016

SPOTLIGHT: A Film about Why We Need In-Depth Investigative Journalists in An Era of Clickbait

Note: I do my best to keep this review as spoiler free as possible. I...

January 07, 2016

A New Year, A New Series: The Intersection of Film and Faith

For the past few months, a combination of busyness, frustration with the state of blogging...

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...

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...

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....

July 2015

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...

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 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 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...

April 2015

April 16, 2015

A Christian Interviews Two Atheists on Ask an Atheist Day

Today is Ask an Atheist Day. The Secular Student Alliance describes the purpose of this...

April 15, 2015

On This Tax Day, I Choose to Give Thanks

I'll be real for a moment: yes, taxes are often burdensome, especially in the complexity...

April 06, 2015

Mad Men: Our Ontological Brokenness

Last night, it was the beginning of the end for AMC's Mad Men: a show...

April 01, 2015

Updated Thoughts on Indiana’s Law

I have been having a rousing conversation with my commenters over the course of the...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Fierce Convictions: Karen Swallow Prior’s Biography of Christian Social Reformer Hannah More

Here at the very end of Women's History Month, we are given a great opportunity...

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