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July 2013

July 29, 2013

Rearranging the Chairs and other wastes of time: A response to Rachel Held Evans

Rachel Held Evans has written a thought provoking piece about why Millenials are leaving the...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Just getting on with it…

This week I'm in the stunningly green English countryside with friends from around the globe...

June 22, 2013

Taking Light Seriously… Living Light Loudly

We took an evening church history tour in Edinburgh Scotland this week. It reminded me...

June 11, 2013

clothes are not bodies – church is not faith

The most memorable gift I've ever received is a used fleece jacket previously owned by...

June 05, 2013

Wood Cutting, and the Wisdom of Inefficiency

Before enlightenment...chop wood. After enlightenment...chop wood. Zen Proverb I spent my free evening yesterday chopping...

April 2013

April 02, 2013

TMI – How Bible Reading can be Bad for your Spiritual Health

Some of the most important truths in the Bible are found in obscure passages that...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

If you fail at falling, you’ll fail at everything.

Eric Fromm, in his classic "The Art of Loving", writes that a healthy environment for...

February 11, 2013

Finding the best mentor in the world

I have a friend in Germany who works at one of the best Bible schools...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

It’s my body, and I’ll do what I want to – the myth of private sexual ethics

"We're two consenting adults. What we do behind a closed door is nobody's business." There,...

January 15, 2013

Keeping Sexual Issues in Proportion: This isn’t baseball – it’s faith!

Baseball was in the news last week and the lesson it offers us has everything...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

“Where’s this headed?” The importance of trajectory

I was on a morning walk recently with some friends in the mountains, and met...

May 23, 2012

Focus on the Dysfunctional Family

I love my friend, Larry Shallenberger's paragraph in this post, about the danger of "Christian...

May 18, 2012

Big Bibles & High Flying Flags – or the presence of Jesus?

Sometimes, when I go to the movies, I can’t tell the film’s name 24 hours...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

Public Vice and Private Virtue

I was privileged to attend the Annual Seattle Pacific Business Breakfast yesterday and listen to...

April 04, 2012

Learning to Lead: Lamb-style

It's early - 5:30 or so, when I hear the first birds of morning as...

March 2012

March 23, 2012

Women in the Church – Snapshot of censorship and call for repentance

Eldon Epp is the author of a little book entitled Junia: The First Woman Apostle. ...

March 06, 2012

Loving People, Losing Life – The Gospel made Real

Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Cultivation – Freeing ourselves from “the latest and greatest”

I normally teach in Germany at the end of November, when the harvest has just...

February 07, 2012

All Poverty is Relational: What does that mean?

I'm riding my bike to work on a frosty morning this winter when I encounter...

January 2012

January 17, 2012

Young Young Adult Exodus from the Faith – and what to do about it (II)

Last week I posted some thoughts about a recent survey by George Barna, which offers...

December 2011

December 20, 2011

When life takes a turn: There’s something about Mary

Cancer. Unemployment. Relationship implosion. Addictions. Family tension. Uncertainty over the future, and all the anxiety...

December 15, 2011

On Bringing Children into the World: Two Views

“I would not want to bring a child into this world” she said gently, yet...

December 05, 2011

Spiritual Fashionistas: It’s not about the clothes – it’s about the body in the clothes

I just returned from a worship service here in Austria on this 2nd Sunday in...

October 2011

October 17, 2011

The whales and Isaiah: finding God’s vision for living (Part I)

Back in the '80s, I moved from Los Angeles to a small island, a jewel...

October 14, 2011

The political problem: policy trumps people

I posted this picture on my Facebook account recently and oh my! People do feel...

October 10, 2011

Churches are dying because young people are shut out. Let’s fix this.

Churches are strange. If a steel plant closes in a Rust Belt city, you can...

October 04, 2011

People are hungry–is the church feeding them?

NOTE: I'm going to be blogging over at Patheos, at least for a few months....

September 2011

September 12, 2011

Totalism: a dangerous playground

A quick look at Jesus life, and one realizes that his most difficult audience wasn’t...

August 2011

August 22, 2011

Fall line – why the hard path is actually life-giving

Enter through the narrow gate...for the gate is small and the way is narrow that...

July 2011

July 26, 2011

What are you looking for?

"where you treasure is, there your heart will be also..." Matthew 6:19 Our holiday in...

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