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June 2014

June 20, 2014

#FFFF: Andy Gill

I used to be a pastor, a youth pastor to be exact, but I quickly...

June 16, 2014

Spiritual But Not Religious – The Authentic Gospel (a sermon)

I don't preach often these days, but it's an honor when I get the opportunity....

June 16, 2014

Controlling Christianity Kills Creativity

Much has been written recently about the controlling leadership clamp-down at Mars Hill Church in...

June 16, 2014

Jimmy Fallon and the Joy of the Lord

Because the joy of the Lord isn't a defeater, a stifler, a cover, a Jesus-juke....

June 08, 2014

Pentecost Survived, Pentecost Received

Pentecost nearly destroyed me. The son of Pentecostal parent ministers who indulged in the unsafe...

June 04, 2014

A Hermeneutic from Dystopian Fiction, or Creating as an Act of Love [Kevin Shoop]

"If you act according to a belief, that is the same thing as having the...

June 04, 2014

I Know My Place [Kelly Green]

I am about as capable of changing another human being’s mind as I am capable...

June 04, 2014

Truth and Power: Looking at Evangelical Crises [John Hawthorne]

I've started many posts on my blog with a similar phrase: "there was an interesting...

June 04, 2014

Ordination: Stuck or Sent? [Levi Holland]

Ordination: A ritual of the church as a discerning body to recognize, endorse and empower...

June 04, 2014

In the Deep End With Grief: Thoughts On Pastoral Care to Those Hurting Most [C. Wess Daniels]

I find it hard to carry the weight of my own pain, let alone the...

June 03, 2014

Beyond Consumption: Participation in the Local Church [Daniel Karistai]

Before I dive in to the second part of these installments exploring what Participation can and maybe...

June 02, 2014

Neo-Calvinist, Neo-Reformed, or…Neo-Fundamentalist?

Labels are inevitable. We need need to understand and identify things. But labeling is difficult....

June 02, 2014

Awakening Mosaics [Tara Lamont Eastman]

There was a time that picking green beans in my grandparent’s garden and sitting on...

June 02, 2014

Numbers Don’t Lie: Finding Adolescent Self-Worth in Spite of Social Media Pt. 2 [Mandy Meisenheimer]

When I was student teaching during my senior year of college, a student entered my...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

#FFFF: Hannah Ettinger

This week's #FFFF isn't a submission - it's an excerpt from a recent post written...

May 28, 2014

The Non-Compete-Driven Church (i.e., Empire Business)

For quite a while now, I've been arguing that influential movements within the American church...

May 23, 2014

No Virtual Reality: Praying With Our Bodies [KrisAnne Swartley]

There are two realities (maybe more?) that we live in these days - virtual and...

May 23, 2014

Ecclesial Agriculture [Fr. Tony Bleything]

The American church needs tree farmers in the city. Want to know why? Because when...

May 23, 2014

The Smell of a Place [David Kludt]

I live in a beautiful and diverse neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles. Depending on which...

May 23, 2014

Testimony Evangelicalism [John Hawthorne]

Having recently come through Holy Week, I notice how important personal contact was in the...

May 23, 2014

Heaviness [Kelly Green]

There are days I wake up with a heaviness in me, remembering the fight of...

May 23, 2014

Losing an Angelic Troublemaker [C. Wess Daniels]

We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers. Our power is in our...

May 23, 2014

Doing Nothing [Levi Holland]

Call it consumeristic, call it good stewardship, call it being efficient and productive, whichever we...

May 23, 2014

The Tolerance Range [Kevin Shoop]

Perhaps the most difficult thing about identifying as a Christian is getting along with other...

May 23, 2014

A Ritual for Congregational Confession [Anderson Campbell]

Confession has gotten a bad rap. In our strengths-driven, success-oriented, put-on-a-good-face, USAmerican culture, we don’t...

May 23, 2014

Whiteness on Display: JD Greear and the Southern Baptist Convention on Homosexuality and Slavery [Brandon Wrencher]

This is not about homosexuality. It's about the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The Bible offends...

May 23, 2014

Likes, Followers, and Friends: Finding Adolescent Self-Worth in Spite of Social Media, Pt. 1 [Mandy Meisenheimer]

It was the beginning of a new and exciting decade. I had the bangs. I...

May 23, 2014

Church: Chile in the Borscht [Jim Kast-Keat]

I grew up in the church. Literally. My earliest memories are being pushed up and...

May 23, 2014

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Threat of Incarnational Living [Scott Emery]

If you were to ask me, “Who is the most influential Christian in American history?”...

May 23, 2014

#FFFF: Brandon Chase

The idolatry of Salvation has a trickle down effect towards misappropriating a crucial spiritual tenet...

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