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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...

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,...

June 2015

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...

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...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

As It Is in Heaven: A Nearly Perfect Film by Joshua Overbay

You can learn everything about Joshua Overbay's naturalistic, haunting film As It Is in Heaven...

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 13, 2015

N.T. Wright’s Simply Good News Filled Me with Joy and Confidence in the Gospel

There's not really words to describe the joy and confidence I experienced as I read...

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 06, 2015

Mad Men: Our Ontological Brokenness

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

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...

February 12, 2015

Kernels of Wisdom from Ken Wytsma in The Grand Paradox

Our current selection for Patheos Book Club is Ken Wytsma's The Grand Paradox: The Messiness...

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...

January 06, 2015

Even Jesus Didn’t “Have a Peace About” Following God’s Will (Pt.2)

In my previous post, I discussed the way Christians sometimes wrongly "follow the peace" in...

January 05, 2015

Why “Having a Peace About It” is a Terrible Reason for a Christian to Make a Decision (Pt.1)

Christians believe in a personal God who is intimately involved in our lives. This is...

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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