Emergent Christian Cliches to Avoid
BY: CHRISTIAN PIATT -- I offer you a list of things emergent Christians can and should strike from our daily lexicon…
Religion and Good Intentions: Embarrassed by Jesus
BY: KATHY VESTAL -- Are we following the Church’s teachings more closely than we follow Jesus’ teachings...
Red Letter Christians on Campus: Do We Have a Responsibility to Shut our Siblings Up?
An Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida, Dr. Charles Negy, has struck a nerve by sending an email to his unanaesthetized “Cross-Cultural Psychology” students challe...
I’m Heterosexual and that's Not Okay
The title for this piece came to me after a focus group meeting on sexuality with some Incedo missionaries. This is not a research based paper. It is not a report on the statistics about sexual and relational a...
Change? Who? Me?
Photo: David Reese
I love grammar. I preach grammar. I grieve when I see the public schools largely ignoring grammar. How can something so important be ignored? How will the younger generations ever...
Christians Do Not Have Freedom of Speech
One of the things that makes America so great is the ability to express yourself, much to the joy, and even pain, of those around you. The freedom of speech is a two-edged sword and more often than not the o...
I Went to Gay Pride
OK, so I am drawn to what is controversial. I want to be there, to see for myself, to make my own judgments. If an event divides decent people into sides that condemn each other, I want to understand bo...
Drive-Thru Prayers to Drive-In Church: Is Religion Lost?
Author and theologian Diana Butler Bass shared a video recently about where she saw for the future of the church. She shared an interesting story about a priest who went out onto a busy street corner on Ask W...
Jesus, the Ham of God
How did we go from the Passover Lamb to the Easter Ham?
It’s a complicated, not very pretty story, central to modern religious identity and, for those reasons, tucked away from public view.
A truly “new” ...
Christopher Hitchens, Diana Butler Bass and the Third Great Awakening
Everyone who calls me to speak somewhere, it seems, wants me to address the issue of declining church membership, and particularly how to connect with younger adults. The problem is that sometimes the inv...