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Is There Such a Thing as “Atheistic Christianity”?
The Right Side of History Is a Terrible Change Strategy
Beyond Consent: What Are We Teaching Young Men?
Affinity groups are the new Homogeneous Unit Principle.
Scarcity Forces Choices Between Good Things
Today is release day for my new book!
The Darkness Does Not Determine Our Direction
Why Conservatives Also Want It Hard
Two Ways to Receive a Signed Copy of My New Book
The Hidden Cost of “Doing It Ourselves”
Admirable, Ambitious, and Unrealistic
Being in a Store Doesn't Make You a Customer
When the Other Choice Feels “Unbearable”
What Churches Can Learn from the WNBA About Multiple Bottom Lines
Why Jonathan Haidt Needs an Update
When the Adjective Becomes the Confession
The Unexpected Benefit of Being a 1099 Pastor
What if Imagination Isn’t Enough?
We Were Never Meant to Carry Our Pain Alone
“It Wasn’t Your Fault” Isn’t the Same as “You’re Forgiven”
The Living God and Our Own Echo
Critical Theory and the Problem of Grace
When a Critique of Critical Theory Becomes Unreasonable
Why I Keep Reading Thomas Jay Oord
God's Hope Does Not Disappoint
Is God Real? Finding Truth Beyond Sunday
Understanding the Church Through Power?
What If Evangelism Isn’t What We Think?
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
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
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