- 03/04/2011
What the Puberty Talk Can Teach Us about Discipleship
Puberty is an awkward time. Most people, both men and women, will point to this stormy time in their lives with a mixture of embarrassment and cringing.
- 02/19/2011
Honk If You Love Anti-Christian Bumper Stickers
It seems to me that Jesus never seemed all that outraged by ridicule. Jesus never seemed to be personally offended.
1 comments - 02/07/2011
Why Facebook (and Your Church) Might Be Making You Sad
We’ve been warned that social media can distract us, shorten our attention spans, disconnect us from real-life relationships.
Tags Technology - 11/03/2010
Is My Music Warping My Child?
Now, I know there are some who would tell you the way to avoid the problem is to do away with “secular” music. But what is secular music?
- 09/21/2010
Should I Marry My Non-Christian Pregnant Girlfriend?
I know I’ve really messed up. I’m just trying to figure what to do now, to keep from making it worse.
- 09/15/2010
'Get Low' and the Gospel
As the closing credits of Get Low filed by, I realized I hadn’t expected a near encounter with the gospel.
- 08/30/2010
God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck
The news media pronounces him the new leader of America’s Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America’s Christian conservatives have no problem with that.
- 08/23/2010
Why Conservative Evangelicals Should Thank God for Clark Pinnock
I was sad to see Gregory Boyd’s announcement that his fellow theologian Clark Pinnock has died. Clark Pinnock led me to faith in Christ.
- 08/05/2010
Is It Wrong to Display a Picture of Robert E. Lee?
I received a question from a reader about whether it was ethical and neighbor-loving to display a picture of Confederate General. Below are my thoughts on the situation.
- 07/31/2010
Anne Rice Hasn't Betrayed You
Anne Rice is, at best, our sister-in-Christ who is going through a dark night of the soul. She is, at the very least, someone who has encountered something of the light of Christ, is drawn to it, and is now “kicking against the goads.”
- 07/12/2010
What Stephen King Taught Me About Repentance
Drunkenness isn’t my particular point of weakness, but I sure have lots of others. And this anecdote reminded me of how many times God has used something minor to arrest my attention.
- 06/01/2010
Ecological Catastrophe and the Uneasy Evangelical Conscience
I’ve left my hometown lots of times. But never like this.
- 05/16/2010
Should We Marry If We're Theologically Divided?
A while back I posted a question from Calvin, a Reformed dispensationalist fundamentalist, and Aimee, a Pentecostal, who have fallen in love and want to get married. Here are my thoughts on the question.
- 05/11/2010
Loving My Invisible Neighbor
It’s easy for me to love my neighbor. It’s easy, that is, as long as my neighbor is invisible.
- 05/10/2010
Walker Percy: Twenty Years Later
Twenty years ago—May 10, 1990—the corpse of the writer Walker Percy was pulled from his bed. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of that moment, then and now, is the absence of the smell of gunpowder.
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