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When a Critique of Critical Theory Becomes Unreasonable

Are We Really Free?

Why I Keep Reading Thomas Jay Oord

God's Hope Does Not Disappoint

Is God Real? Finding Truth Beyond Sunday

A Promise, Not a Threat

Understanding the Church Through Power?

What If Evangelism Isn’t What We Think?

The Joy of an Epic Pour

Is the Mainline Holding Together Two Different Faiths?

Does This Author Actually Understand Business as Mission?

More Than a Divorce: Anne Boleyn and the English Reformation

Big News: My First Book Is Now Available for Pre-Order

Why Mainline Churches Are Missing Where the People Are

The Mainline Church is Running out of Pastors: Part 3

What Hospital Beds Taught Me About Faith

The Mainline Church is Running out of Pastors: Part 2

Is Church Attendance Actually Causal? (A Follow-Up)

Ten MORE ways church will be different in ten years.

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (In My Own Life)

Church, Mental Health, and Ideological Blind Spots

Between Death and Resurrection on Holy Saturday

Clarity Before Strategy

Word and Sacrament at the Hospital Bedside

Ten ways church will be different in ten years.

The Mainline Church Is Running Out of Pastors

The Seven Primal Questions… as 90s CCM Songs 🎶

When the Church Makes Room for Disagreement

Where is Life Located: Rethinking John 14:6, exclusivity, and a hopeful soteriology

Our Need for Certainty Is Making Us Shallow

Compassion Without Authority Is a Fragile Moral Language

The King Who Didn’t Have to Say It

Why Christianity will never work as simply a beautiful story

What Holds You When Justice Work Gets Heavy?

Book Review: The Wise Leader by Uli Chi

How We Respond to Adversity Shapes Our Future

How is your ministry agile, networked, and technology-based?

When Progressive Ideology Replaces Christian Hope

Letting Go on the Way: Two Books on Travel, Control, and Transformation

You Should Want to see What I Think

Why Loving Your Neighbor Is More About Context Than Conviction

Shepherds, Not Saviors

Peter, Sin, and the Wounds of Trauma

Why I’m Not Convinced Far Right Christianity Will Fade Like its Progressive counterpart

Moral Formation Is Not Supposed to Feel Good

Why Moral Imagination Requires a Moral Ecology

When Sacrifice Costs More than Gummy Bears

F*ck ICE: Hate, Lament, and the Death of Imagination

Why we Need to Learn to Trust the Resurrection Again

Totalism and Despair: Trumpism in 2026