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November 2012

November 30, 2012

Love Without Agenda: Moving our Spiritual Goalposts from Heaven and Hell to Wholeness

Jimmy Spencer Jr., the founder and CEO of Love Without Agenda, has written a book...

November 27, 2012

“A Year of Biblical Womanhood” makes me want to become a better man

I’ve followed Rachel Held Evans’ Year of Biblical Womanhood project since she announced it a...

November 06, 2012

The todays and tomorrows of this election – a reflection

Today many of us will vote. Tomorrow many of us will gloat. Today many of...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Remixing N.T. Wright with Frank Viola (Wright’s opponents greatest misrepresentations)

As you know if you read this blog regularly, NT Wright is the theologian that...

October 25, 2012

A Pig’s Tail: A wonderful short animated film about a piglet in a factory farm

As you may know, animal advocacy is something that I see as a Kingdom issue....

October 16, 2012

Red Letter Dialogues: Review and Introduction (Claiborne and Campolo)

By re-focusing our attention on the basics, the red letters of the Bible, these authors...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

Mumford and Sons, God, and Babel

Excerpt From Tim Neufeld's Blog: On their second album, Babel, Mumford and Sons continue to...

September 17, 2012

If I wasn’t Anabaptist, I’d probably become Anglican – Reflections on an ancient-future faith orientation

The more I’ve experienced the worship of high church liturgy, the more I’ve found myself...

September 13, 2012

Randomness and Evolution: Is There Room for God?

I've written extensively on why I believe that evolution and Christian faith are indeed compatible....

September 12, 2012

Shane Hipps on Faith and Technology on iPhone 5 announcement day (#iPhone5)

Today is the expected "big announcement" from Apple regarding the iPhone 5. As a...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Do you have to believe in Christ’s literal physical resurrection to be a Christian?

Resurrection is the central theme in Christianity. The New Testament goes out of its way...

August 27, 2012

Christian Politics – Speak truth. Be truth. That’s it!

Speak truth. Be truth. That’s it! That’s how I’d summarize the role of Christians in...

August 23, 2012

Why the “Christian life” isn’t worth living

For most of my life, I focused my faith on knowing Jesus through morality management....

August 20, 2012

Greg Boyd on Hell, Sin, Salvation, and Divorcing God

Greg Boyd on the importance of framing the hell question correctly from Kevin Miller on...

August 17, 2012

A Supper In Cell 92 with Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The current Christian landscape in America is a war torn battlefield; daily blogs are launched...

August 13, 2012

God is throwing a party and everyone is invited! (Rob Bell)

***If you want my thoughts on Rob Bell and Hell, here's where you can start....

August 08, 2012

God, I Thank You I’m Not Like Those Others: The Meta-Sin of Culture Wars

Permit me—even forgive me if need be—for tampering with Scripture for a moment to make...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Can Porn be used responsibly?

My view is that porn always removes God from the center replacing the Divine with...

July 30, 2012

The Problem of Selective Fundamentalism (abortion & LGBT) – Shane Claiborne

What do you think? Some may feel he goes "too far" (conservatives) and others may...

July 26, 2012

Evangelicalism: A Boundless-Centered Theology

I need my Calvinist family, just as much as I need my Openness relatives. Like...

July 25, 2012

What are your thoughts on euthanasia?

This is my first round teaching an ethics class at the school that I work...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Is Obama an Evangelical? Christianity Today Debates

source: Christianity Today Excerpt from -- "Barack Obama: Evangelical-in-Chief?" by Judd Birdsall (read the whole...

June 25, 2012

Idol-ology: when our ideas or experiences replace God

I tend to have a bit of pendulum swing, back and forth, between two areas...

June 20, 2012

It’s the End of the World as We Know It: the truth about the end times

The REM song from the late 80’s should be on any 2012 playlist. In the...

June 18, 2012

Why singing “Our God is Greater” *might* make our God seem less great

There’s a song that has now made its rounds in the evangelical church circuit. This...

June 14, 2012

Forsaking Power and Violence: How Radical-Reformers Lived the Politics of Jesus

As our society becomes more secular and cynical of the institutional church, the nonviolent way...

June 12, 2012

Why I voted for Jesus instead of Obama in the primary

Why I voted for Jesus instead of Obama in the primary… Because, obviously, President Obama...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Eating Some Humble Pie in a Hungarian Village

Last Sunday night I had the privilege of being part of a church planting core...

May 24, 2012

RE-Membering Memorial Day

May 24, 2012

Evolving Evangelicalism (part 13): Beyond the Culture War (Bad Curriculum + Leadership Gap)

This is the conclusion of the "Evolving Evangelicalism" series. You may remember a video where...