Why Do We Keep Choosing Narcissistic Leaders?
I read an interesting article today from the Harvard Business Review about the rash of high profile leaders resigning because of extra-marital affairs. As an evangelical Christian, my antenna is pretty...
View ArticleLent: Learning to See In the Dark
I cannot think of Lent w/out thinking of this scene from Apollo 13. Our culture can sell us a million different ways to keep the lights on. It takes a practice like Lent to teach us how to switch them...
View ArticleAn Ohio Christian College Loses Popular Professor: Cedarville Does Some Soul...
I think a lot of Christian College campuses must be going through issues like this right now. The fundamentalist message is so incompatible with a post-modern worldview, that the entire philosophy...
View ArticleWill Evangelicalism Last? Here’s My Take from The Huffington Post
*This article is from The Huffington Post 02.25.20213 Rob Bell has another book coming out, the first since his bestseller “Love Wins” caused an evangelical uproar. Folks who haven’t even read the book...
View ArticleLove Thy Stranger As Thyself: Interesting Op-Ed from the NYTimes on...
There’s a pretty interesting op-ed in the New York Times by Molly Worthen from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She’s writing on three subjects I care about: immigration, evangelicalism,...
View ArticleHauerwas and… Mohler? Notes From An Unlikely Conversation
This has to be one of the more unlikely conversations I’ve ever heard between to men I have come to view quite differently over the years. I grew up a Southern Baptist in the midst of a sweet little...
View ArticleChristianTingle.com Part 2 – Saving Ourselves for Post-Marriage
“Couldn’t find any precedent for that in the Bible, but we’re gonna go with it.” Christians… we are such a weird people. Thankfully we have folks like Tripp & Tyler who continue to poke at...
View ArticleFranklin Graham and the Pain of Being the Son of a Great Father
Franklin Graham can be quite frustrating at times. Over the past few years, however, I’ve been feeling more and more compassion for him. There’s a great line from the movie Amistad. Two jaded White...
View ArticleThe Numbers Say Evangelicals are Losing Faith in Trump … I don’t Buy It
“White Christian conservatives were Trump’s largest single voting bloc: bigger than the “white working class,” bigger than establishment Republicans, bigger than Trump’s Tea Party base. Over 80...
View ArticleTo My Evangelical Brothers & Sisters: Trump is Our Biggest Mistake & Our...
I have a theory. I think Donald Trump is simultaneously the biggest mistake evangelicals have ever made, and our greatest opportunity to make a real change for the better. Here’s what I mean. I Was a...
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