Nine lonely, despondent-looking church buildings impose themselves on the landscape of my daily commute.  They seem so sad, and so stubborn with their dilapidated steeples,…

I sat down tonight to write a post about hurricanes, halloween, and abusive fundamentalism. But, that isn’t going to happen.  It seems too opportune, too…

Grace can be a bit of a nuisance. After all, it’s too naive.  It too quickly believes that someone is better than their track record,…

Trendy.  Hip.  Ethnic.  Diverse. In a first century world, those words don’t really seem to fit.  But, in first-century Ephesus, they aptly describe the city….

Yesterday, I wrote this post (Jack, Daniele, and the Day the Church Went to the Bar…) inspired by the true story of a real church…

Jack was never one for church. It all seemed too superstitious and trite for him.  Sure, if you pressed him, he believed in something that some…

We are great slacktivists. On Wednesday, August 1st 2012, record numbers flocked to their local Chik-fil-A’s to stand up for their values and stand behind…

If you haven’t heard by now, you should probably check your pulse to make sure you are actually alive. Dan Cathy, the president of Chik-fil-A,…

Forgiveness isn’t for the weak-kneed or the faint-hearted. The religion I grew up with taught me to be suspicious of people who were different from…

I hear a lot – and I mean, a LOT – of Christians say something to the following effect:  this world is a terrible place….