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February 2016

February 24, 2016

Dear Gay People: God Does Not Want to Swap You Out

Traditionalist Christians cannot embody the love that God has for gay people.

February 23, 2016

Still A Christian: I Believe

There's one thing that every Christian believes. Including me.

February 19, 2016

Life’s Too Short to Not Read David Dark

Tour de Awesome Blogsphere confessional: I have a total, complete, 100% man-crush on David Dark. From...

February 17, 2016

Why I Am Still a Christian

At a conference in November I had what somehow became "post-Christian day." It consisted of...

February 15, 2016

Justice Scalia and Justice Upheld

The Chaos We Created Just when we thought that the presidential primaries were an opportunity...

February 13, 2016

Christian Ed: Not Quite Dead?

"Bring Out Your Dead" It seems that I have inadvertently staged a reenactment of one...

February 11, 2016

Fasting in the Midst of Plenty

Many of us have come through Ash Wednesday services and are now full on into...

February 09, 2016

Fasting for Lent (or otherwise)

I'm Totally a Lent Expert Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. My...

February 08, 2016

Open Letter to Wheaton Faculty

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Over the past couple of months the eyes of the world have...

February 06, 2016

Wheaton Parts Ways with Hawkins

Wheaton Saturday! Saturday the world was given quite the treat out of Wheaton College. (Backstory:...

February 05, 2016

Rubio, Sanders, Jesus, Bible

Shared Faith A few weeks ago Marco Rubio was confronted at a campaign gathering by...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

Embracing the Gentiles

This is the first in an occasional series of encore presentations of some of the most significant...

January 29, 2016

Prayers for Trump

A few weeks ago at our house church gathering my daughter spontaneously prayed during a...

January 28, 2016

Progressive Evangelicalism Isn’t Old Liberalism

In response to my Progressive Evangelical post, a few folks were trying to figure out how to...

January 27, 2016

Be Afraid of Certainty

January 26, 2016

The Gift of Change

Change is terrifying. It is unsettling. It is anxiety inducing. But we can handle all...

January 22, 2016

Coopted Christianity

Is there any hope for us, Christians, to be saved from ourselves? Better, is there...

January 20, 2016

Giving Up On Faith

Scrambling the Evangelical Egg On Saturday I laid out some thoughts about being a progressive...

January 16, 2016

Progressive Evangelical

I know this might be rushing things in our relationship. But if it's going to...

January 11, 2016

Does God Need Us?

That Awkward Moment One of the most awkward moments I ever squirmed through in church...