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White Evangelicals Are Fading, Powerful, and Baffling
Overwhelmingly, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump — a twice-divorced vulgarian who calls women “pigs” and “slobs,” brags about extramarital affairs and boasts of grabbing...
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I Got Married at 19 for Stupid Reasons and it Was the Best Decision of My Life
I’ve been married to my wife for almost 7 years. We have a two-year-old daughter named Andie. We’ve been traveling around the globe for an entire year. And neither of us can imagine life without the...
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Why Did You Start Creating in the First Place?
Why did you start creating in the first place? It’s a useful question to ask ourselves. In this world where art is so often and easily productized, monetized and turned into — dare I say it: work —...
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Can I Cuss Around You?
I don’t get out much, but the other evening, I was able to sneak over to the local German bierstube to catch up with an old friend. We go way back. Though we’re in somewhat different places in life,...
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Karma and the Search for Learning Experiences
At its worst, pain is a nuisance; it’s an annoying bother. Or maybe that’s the best pain can be. Perhaps, at its worst, pain is a depressing numbness, it’s a debilitating injury. It is dull or sharp,...
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Travelogue: So This is Christian
“Hello,” she says, genially. And you smile back wondering why you were so on edge. “Your first time to Israel?” the agent inquires. “Yes,” you beam. “Purpose of your visit?” “To see the Holy Land,” you...
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Why Trying to ‘Live Like Jesus’ Leads to Disaster
— I both love this statement AND see a deep problem with it… “Jesus is a model for living more than an object of worship.” I read it on an email from one of my spiritual heroes, Fr. Richard Rohr. I...
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We Are Mere Participants
As a human, I love my righteous sense of ‘doingness’. I love having skin in the game. I think I can do it all (and do it the right way). In my mind, I can single-handedly save the world before noon...
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Anatomy of a Smear
Don’t get me wrong: It’s not like it’s the first time. I mean, seriously, I’ve gotten used to right-wingers mangling my words to suit their purposes, and attempting to smear me: either as an anti-white...
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The Decline of Christian America from the Christian Left Perspective
Right now I’m reading “The Reactionary Mind,” a biting critique of conservatism by Coren Robin; and “The End of White Christian America,” in which Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute...
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Waking up in the Palace
I wrote a line recently that made me reflect (even more than I usually do) on my current life path… “The biggest opponent of religion that I’ve ever read about was Jesus.” It’s one of those lines that...
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When Our Goodness Becomes Our Greatest Enemy
The last time I wrote, I was talking about grace (something that I don’t see myself shutting up about anytime soon). I wrote how, in the Gospel, it’s often the weak who encounter God before the strong....
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Faith and Politics–Why People of Faith Can’t Check Out
I found out something about myself: I thought I had an endless reservoir of contempt for bad faith arguments and willful asininity. Turns out, I don’t. Not unlike many of my fellow citizens, I have...
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Love or Fear (Or, Which Path Will You Choose?)
Disclaimer: Remember in my first blog when I asked my readers for one favor – read with an open mind? Well… With that out of the way, let’s jump right in! As you know from my radio interview, I’ve...
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Finding Unity in our Manyness
There seems to be a cultural longing among a good amount of people in today’s increasingly pluralistic, secular, postmodern world (not to knock it at all — just sayin’). In my experience, I’ve...
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The Reason for the Season?
— A flurry of criticism was directed at MP Scott Brison of Kings-Hants after he sent Christmas cards to his constituents featuring a photo of his family. Criticism stemed not from the fact that...
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When Christianity Became Boring
At some point in history — particularly in the west — we started to see everything through the eyes of an engineer. This was extraordinarily useful when it came to building bridges or designing...
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The Church Ought to Be the Seat of the Resistance
In the twenty-four hours following the recent presidential election, I received three messages — none of them from church people. I’m not talking about people who don’t go the church I serve, but...
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The Irremovable Vestment
I was baptized in the Roman Catholic church when I was 8 years old (the same day that my wife was born — pretty miraculous coincidence there, methinks). My baptism happened later than a lot of other...
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Fundamental Falsehoods
The Lilly Endowment, a rich foundation created by pharmaceutical heirs, says part of its mission is to “deepen and enrich the religious lives of American Christians” and to “foster public understanding...
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