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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 13, 2017

OCD, Stephen King’s IT, and Facing Our Fear

OCD and Fear I have struggled with bouts of OCD since my teenage years. When...

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...

August 2017

August 26, 2017

Charlottesville, White Supremacy, and a Broken Heart

Many white people in this country are far more angry about removing statues than they...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

What Flannery O’Connor Might Say to Christian Moviemakers, Musicians, and Artists

For many, barely-Christian thought, even that which dips its toe affirmatively in heretical thinking or...

July 13, 2017

Public Outbursts About Eugene Peterson and Jen Hatmaker Reveal Wider Christian Issues

We make gay people our scapegoats so we don't have to look at our own...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

The Problem of Always Externalizing Evil

Our world is full of people who think that evil is only external to them....

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...

June 01, 2017

Winning, Losers, and the Example of Christ

The American Christian Right loves nothing so much as winning. But this is more American...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Why FARGO Is My Favorite Film (Part 2)

Yesterday, I wrote about the first reason the Coen brothers' Fargo is my favorite film...

May 24, 2017

Why FARGO Is My Favorite Film (Part 1)

Last week, prompted by a great question coming from the podcast Assumptions, I asked you...

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:...

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...

March 17, 2017

Do Not Be Conformed: Talk Radio and Spiritual Formation

A steady diet of talk radio, angry blogs, and aggressive pundits has finally borne its...

March 10, 2017

I Am a Christian. Should I Protest the Authority?

I consider myself a peaceful Trump resistor; I have not yet attended a protest but...