PregMANcy: The Video
This is a funny little trailer my son, Mattias, and I put together to tell folks about my new memoir on fatherhood, family and faith called “PregMANcy: A Dad, A Little Dude and a Due Date.” For more info,...
Trayvon Martin – Race, Guns, or Pride?
The killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman earlier this year has brought out the usual political punditry. Everyone “knows” the “real” reason Martin took a bullet, even though they can’t seem to agre...
Should This Family Be Illegal?
A decade ago, when we moved to Walltown and were getting to know our neighbors, my friend Andy Marin moved to Boystown in Chicago. Like me, Andy is an evangelical Christian. In the churches where he came t...
Speaking Out Is Complicated (And So Is Staying Silent)
For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have gladly called myself an Evangelical. But those years coincided with the rise of the Religious Right...
A Moderately Conservative Case for the Defeat of NC Amendment 1
As soon as my husband accepted our friends’ offer of an “Another Family Against the Amendment” yard sign in January, I knew exactly how it would play out. The corrugated plastic sign wouldn’t be forgotten in ...
"The land is mine" (the importance of Leviticus 25:23)
As the debate rages within Christianity over what the Bible teaches about economic "fairness, " a key chapter to peruse is Leviticus 25, which introduces the concept of the year of the jubilee that Jesus procl...
The Gospel Shell Game
Photo: FlickR/Still Burning
Have you ever known anyone imprisoned by a cell of their own making?
Perhaps we all do it to some degree, but some do it to the extent that their lives are an ever-shrinking, impl...
Young Adults: Forget Church, Follow Jesus
Two recent articles grabbed my attention, partly because they resonate quite a bit with the pieces I’ve written about Why Young Adults Leave Church. It’s also interesting to me that so many people seem to be t...
"Does once saved always saved apply even though he became an atheist?”
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I stand at the graveside of a young student. Fifteen years old. Dead in an instant. Skateboarding on a foggy night and a car that never even saw a faint shadow, until it was too...
Offensive Jesus?
Nobody's perfect. We all make mistakes. I've made plenty. I'll make plenty more.
And in the future, when i err, I'd like to err on the side of grace.
We've heard it said many times before by trendy autho...