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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...

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...

April 2017

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:...

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...

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 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...

April 2015

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 08, 2015

Runaway Radical: A Young Man’s Reckless Journey to Save the World

I get the draw of world missions. I grew up on Christian missionary biographies. These...

April 04, 2015

The Literal, Bodily Resurrection

In a world of constant bad news, today, there is good news! What is this...

April 03, 2015

Good Friday: Where Are You in the Story?

On this most solemn day of the Christian year, let us stop for a moment...

April 02, 2015

Maundy Thursday: We Love Because He First Loved Us

“Maundy” comes from the Latin word mandatum, meaning "command or mandate." This day of the...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

The Overnighters: A Documentary about the Bakken Oil Fields, a Lutheran Pastor, Sin, and Service

The Overnighters (2014) is writer/director Jesse Moss's documentary film, centered around the men who seek...

February 18, 2015

The Good News of Ash Wednesday

Today marks the beginning of Lent in the liturgical calendar that my church and many...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Aloof’s Vulnerable Truth: “Surely You Are a God Who Hides”

In his new book, Aloof:Figuring Out Life with a God Who Hides (Thomas Nelson), Tony...

January 26, 2015

Whiplash: Perfectionism Is Seductive, but Does It Bring Life?

The Academy Award-nominated film Whiplash is named after a famous jazz song by Buddy Rich. The...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

“A Mighty Fortress”: Hope from the Midst of an Infectious Disease Epidemic

As I prepared to write about how that good old Reformation hymn "A Mighty...

October 28, 2014

How Luther’s Two Kingdoms Challenges Fundamentalism’s “Christian Nation”

There is perhaps no misunderstanding of theology that has more greatly damaged Christian witness in...

October 27, 2014

Martin Luther and Me: A Tortured Soul Finds Grace

When I was a teenager, I suffered from anxiety, depression, and what appears to have...

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