Category: Discipleship

Last Saturday I was buying coffee at the supermarket and purchased a copy of Psychology Today on a random impulse. Ok. Ok. Maybe it was a subconscious urge. Though I currently enjoy psychology a great deal (as evidenced by the...

I've been reading about US political history a bit lately and enjoying the dialog. I like so much of what the founding fathers believed and incorporated into our nation's DNA.  Freedom of religion and speech are two great ones....

[caption id="attachment_3742" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Ideas should be treated like cats"][/caption] I hope I'm not one of those ivory tower guys who loves to play around with ideas that never touch down on the...

Here's a list of five signs of spiritual maturity from a pastor in South Africa (the bold text).  I think he's on to something, but I've added my own commentary and some adjustments as well (the regular text). An Appetite...

Rachel Held Evans and Mark Driscoll;  Hawaii and Maine, Florida and Alaska; opposite poles on the map of contemporary evangelicalism.  He the shameless biblical chauvinist complementarian, she the thoughtful progressive...

It's interesting to see the occasional critique of Richard Dawkins by a fellow skeptic. Here's a recent one from Daniel Craine at the Guardian: As a sceptic, I tend to agree with Dawkins's conclusion regarding the falsehood of...

From what little I've seen of the Occupy Wall Street movement  and it's humble little brother, Occupy Bellingham, I'm not terribly impressed.  I don't disagree with the stated goal of addressing corporate greed and its...

We had a very interesting discussion this AM at church in our "post-Service discussion group" (not "Sunday School"). The question was "What is Truth and how do we talk about it?" We did the typical Christian thing, which is to...

To day I spoke on Romans 6, where Paul says "Shall continue in sin that grace may abound?" At issue is the question (maybe it was an accusation): if grace is so great and free and all you need is faith, well, why don't we just...

There was some minor buz recently about how evangelical leaders were not invited to participate in 9/11 memorial events. One was an interfaith prayer vigil at the Washington Cathedral regarding which, A representative of...