On American Exceptionalism
What transpired that Sunday is nothing short of a bold display of American Exceptionalism. Which, to be clear, is idolatry.
Why Is Temptation So Tempting?
Sins of omission generally begin with temptations of omission.
Love Should Never Include Disclaimers: Why Christians Need to Stop Trying to “Fix” People
MAY 9, 2014 | BY: JENNY RAE ARMSTRONG -- We can’t love freely when our self-worth is tangled up in someone else’s free will. We need to get...
News Flash: Christians Don’t Have All the Answers
OCT 6, 2013 | BY: MICAH BALES -- The good news about the missional mindset is that none of us need to have all the answers to start...
Have Progressive Christians Abandoned Too Much?
AUGUST 26, 2013 | BY: KATHY VESTAL -- The progressive Christianity movement arose in response to the fundamentalist movement...
Why “Evangelical” Is Worth Saving
May 25, 2013 | BY: BRANDAN ROBERTSON -- Many people in the Christian world are facing this issue of high jacked terminology. Words like "saved"...
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of The Evangelical Left
The right story told at the right time can make all the difference. Knowing this, great storytellers take as much care in selecting the right story as they do in crafting its telling. David Swartz, author an...
Hijacking Jesus for Partisan Gain
It really gets old, doesn’t it? Every election cycle, the story is the same. This Christian says that Christian is not really a Christian. And why is that? Is it because they differ on critical issues rel...
System Failure: Raised Right
There are plenty of criticisms offered against today’s American youth and young adults. And despite the fact that I turn forty in a few weeks, I still consider myself among them: a kindred spirit of cultural o...
Two Roads Diverged in the Evangelical Wood
When I was a young Evangelical Christian coming of age back in the early 1970s, I remember feeling that there were two paths before me. One was legalistic, anti-intellectual, combative and rigid. The other...