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October 2012

October 06, 2012

Ethiopia: God Is Even Bigger Than We Think

My flight's about to board for Ethiopia. I'm not looking for anything or anyone. I'm...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

UPDATE: The ’06 Bruce Cockburn “God Factor” Interview NOW WITH AUDIO

As for our public "interview," it too remains one of my favorite of all time....

August 11, 2012

New Music Saturday: Aug. 11, 2012

New music from : Mary Chapin Carpenter (with James Taylor), Sixpence None the Richer, Matisyahu,...

August 11, 2012

Mumford & Sons: ‘I Will Wait’

Whatever the true story or intentions of the band may be, "I Will Wait" was...

July 2012

July 22, 2012

The Age of Innocence: Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’

In an iconoclastic cinematic oeuvre unrivaled among filmmakers of his generation, Anderson's latest stands above...

July 12, 2012

The Paddle Out: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

We were not alone out there, bobbing up and down on our boards in the...

July 12, 2012

Theophony: A Theremin, a Yurt and a Band of Holy Fools

Last year, Phil Wyman, pastor of The Gathering church in Salem, Mass., trekked across the...

July 12, 2012

My Sabbath: Resting at Lughnasa

All our life should be a pilgrimage to the seventh day; the thought and appreciation...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Top 10 Things I Learned From The Wild Goose

By loosening the death grip of control over my work — over my life, really...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Deliver Us From Smugness

It is not the imperfection or presence of conflict themselves within the Communion of the...

May 27, 2012

Graceland, Apartheid and the ‘Deep Truth that Artists Speak’

It began with the music. Full stop. Back in the early '80s, someone gave Simon...

May 21, 2012

Bono to the G8: Transparency, ‘We Won’t Have Food Security Without It’

One of these things is not like the others. In a room filled with African...

May 20, 2012

Rob Bell: ‘Surrender the Outcomes’

How do you step out and take a risk — as a pastor, as an...

May 20, 2012

Bare Feet and Dolphins: The Return of Rob Bell

“Oh, a dolphin.” The speaker, dressed in khaki jeans, a blue t-shirt and flip-flops, interrupts...

May 20, 2012

I Am My Mother’s Daughter (Thanks Be to God)

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of...

May 11, 2012

Justin Bieber Thanks His Mother for Faith, Strength (and Helps Single Moms While He’s At It)

What can I give back to God for the blessings he's poured out on me?...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

Soul Food

When Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis departed on his three-month sabbatical at the beginning of January,...

March 09, 2012

U2’s Joshua Tree: 25 Years in God’s Country

Desert sky Dream beneath the desert sky The rivers run, but soon run dry We...

March 09, 2012

‘Why I Hate Religion But Love YouTube’

Early this year I visited the Episcopal parish outside Chicago where my family and I...

March 09, 2012

Doing Nothing for Lent

"We are surrounded by a way of life in which betterment is understood as expansion,...

March 01, 2012

Lost in Translation: Eugene Peterson and ‘The Message’

Eugene Peterson has written more than 30 books on theology and the life of faith...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Eugene Peterson: The Pastor on Preaching, Women Clergy

NEW YORK CITY — Today and Wednesday, I have the privilege of attending a private...

February 14, 2012

Chocolate in the Baptismal Font: Things that Happen When Women Are Ordained

Over the weekend, I spent a few delicious hours watching episodes of the BBC's The...

January 2012

January 10, 2012

Justin Bieber’s Ecce Homo

You might not have a clue who Bieber is. Or, if you are aware of...

January 05, 2012

An Invitation to The Great Conversation

A California vicar I know likes to describe the life of faith — the Church...

January 05, 2012

Waiting to Exhale

Lately, I’ve been holding my breath. It’s actually something I inherited from my mother’s side...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

GODSTUFF: “The Mighty Macs” is Mighty Marvelous

Rarely do I leave a cinema and feel the urge to tell everyone I know...

September 2011

September 20, 2011

GODSTUFF: Two Thumbs Up for Mr. Ebert &”Life Itself”

"I have arrived at a balancing point between sickness and health, and it is the...

September 11, 2011

GODSTUFF: 10 years after 9/11 the question remains the same

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was standing in the bathroom of my...

September 07, 2011

GODSTUFF: “Red State” wins. Take a bow, Silent Bob.

The horror of "Red State" is not the body count wrought by machine-gun-toting church ladies...