What Israel Teaches Us About the Idolatry of Security
August 10, 2017Christian in the United States today grapples with a desire to control and preserve its own future. Illustrated by the…Still Crusading
July 29, 2017The Crusades, one of the darkest stains on the Christian Church in all of its history, still echoes in Christianity…Losing Christ Within the Empire
July 3, 2017Today is the eve of Independence Day, the peak of the American Christian's tendency to conflate the worship of God…Questions About the Masculine God
May 8, 2017The words we use carry deep meaning – far beyond the dictionary definitions of the words themselves. Are masculine terms…God’s Chosen: Wrestling with God and Humanity
April 5, 2017Time and again, God seems to have chosen the screw-ups of the world to change history. Why is it that…An Evangelical Crossroads
January 23, 2017A message like that of Jesus would get you kicked out of most evangelical churches today. He didn’t teach us…Death and Life Before Christ
December 2, 2016Last week, Justin, one of my best friends, shared his concern that Christianity necessarily means that those who lived before…Emerging into a Community of Believers
October 25, 2016This post is about as close a thing as I've ever written to my personal testimony and Christian calling, from…Skittles and Sheep
September 21, 2016"If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a…Interpreting “The War is Coming!” and “Falling on the Sword”
August 20, 2016I never do this. I don’t explain my stories. The story behind this one, though, is special to me. The…