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Love in the Time of Ebola
Let me start by saying, I’m not too worried about a huge Ebola outbreak in the United States (despite major media outlets trying to convince me to be). But I do think the cultural anxiety surrounding...
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Manufacturing Outrage in the Christian Blogosphere
NOTE: Since this post was published yesterday, Bobby Grow has written “An Open Apology to Rachel Held Evans” and removed the original post referenced in this work. I read Rachel Held Evans piece on...
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Your Gifts Aren’t a Mandate for Ministry
No one’s talents or gifts should be an expressway into ministry. God has gifted each of us with specific talents and gifts from birth. But the fact that someone is musically talented, able to teach, or...
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5 Philosophical Arguments against an Eternal Hell
I didn’t become a Christian out of my fear of hell—but in spite of it. When I believed at 21, it was after being overcome by Christ’s grace and goodness despite the fact that I found the concept of...
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Learning Not to Puppet the Convictions of Others
I was a seventeen-year-old kid with no religious affiliation who just wanted to see Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. I didn’t realize I’d have to walk through a gauntlet of Christians...
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Some Scriptural Arguments against an Eternal Hell
I promised to come back and focus on the scriptural reasons why I reject eternal conscious torment (ETC), which is the idea that those who die without Christ will suffer forever in a Hieronymus Bosch...
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Runaway Radical: When Idealism Meets Reality
I just finished the favorite book of the year—and it hasn’t even been released yet. Reading Runaway Radical by Amy Hollingsworth and her son Jonathan was like looking in a funhouse mirror of my own...
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The Gospel’s Too Silly to Be Mocking Other Faiths
I posted a news story on Facebook the other day that had a Scientology angle to it. It wasn’t too long before we (yes, myself included) were making judgmental, snide comments about Scientology and the...
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Christians: It’s Time to Acknowledge the Issue of Privilege
All my life I’ve heard the term “underprivileged.” It was used when we talked about people in impoverished countries or children who needed assistance with school lunches. I’ve never heard anyone take...
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Recognizing the Evil in Our Everyday Selfishness
Our little town puts on a lighted Christmas parade every year. It’s basically tractors with Christmas lights, but my wife seems to love it. It’s sort of like a living Garrison Keillor story complete...
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Embracing the Heartbreak of the Advent Season
Ferguson, Eric Garner, CIA torture reports, Bill Cosby: I can’t get away from terrible, heartbreaking news. But more than that, I’m dismayed by the fractured, combative nature in the dialog surrounding...
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What If You Could Value Something without Agreeing?
Sometimes I’ll stumble across someone promoting my blog and they’ll say something like, “I don’t agree with everything this guy says, but his blog is pretty thought provoking.” I’m often left...
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5 Bits of Rubbish in Beloved Christmas Carols
Sometimes people will say to me, “One of my favorite things about Christmas is how everywhere I go, I get to hear songs about Jesus. It’s like the mall is full of Christian music for a whole month.”...
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Can We Talk about Biblical Illiteracy in the Church?
“Mystics without study are only spiritual romantics who want relationship without effort.”—Calvin Miller I live in a quaint American town—a Norman Rockwellian picture of small-town USA. There’s a...
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Picking Up the Pieces: An Interview with Runaway Radical’s Amy and Jonathan...
Pre-order it today for $11.95 “Sometimes I lie awake, night after night Coming apart at the seams Eager to please, ready to fight Why do I go to extremes?”—Billy Joel As I wrote in an earlier post,...
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5 Lessons I Wish I’d Learned by 25
One of life’s tragic comedies is that when you’re a teen, everyone’s a moron but you. You have it all figured out, and there’s no reason to listen to people twice your age. As you crest 40, you realize...
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Olly Olly Oxen Free: What if God Will Use Anyone!?
My friend Amy* shared this on Facebook yesterday, “I became a Christian just after midnight on my 22nd birthday, the summer after I graduated from college, selling books door to door in Emporia,...
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Drinking the Kool-Aid of Our Own Success
“Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew...
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Now I Understand—A Visit to the Civil Rights Museum
This guest post is by my friend Josh Kelley, speaker and the author of Radically Normal: You Don’t Have to Live Crazy to Follow Jesus (Harvest House). You can learn more about him and his family’s trip...
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Persecution Complex: Jason Wiedel Shatters Our Delusion
According to Open Doors USA, an organization focused on Christian persecution around the world, every thirty days: 332 Christians are killed for the faith 214 churches and Christian properties are...
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