2014
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If Today Were Your Last …
Dec 26
Would it be a day well spent?
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Most Christmas Music Isn’t for Me
Dec 21
If anyone stopped to ask me, though, they’d learn I both love and look forward to the Christmas holiday – this coming week the most.
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Mega Churches and Freshman-level Lecture Hall
Oct 19
Over the past several years, America has witnessed the rise of the mega church. This isn’t a good thing …
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Dangerous Theology
Oct 5
Music can be a fantastic unifying force, but if you’re not careful, it can unify people around the wrong ideas.
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Finding my Faith
Aug 29
A friend once told me I was the “worldliest Christian” he knew. Some would take offense at the label, but he meant it as a compliment. I understood more about the way the non-churched world worked than he expected, and he was both surprised and pleased I was willing to step outside of Christian subculture…
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Faith and Cowardice
Aug 14
God is not dead. Adding “to me” to this statement devalues it and marks you a coward for not sticking by your faith.
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How Vested are You?
Jun 16
To have a “vested interest” in something means you need to have actually invested something. Hearing someone who’d been paid for their time, had reneged twice on offers to actually invest in a business, and had nothing tied up in the business itself claim a “vested interest” felt incredibly wrong.
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Why Doesn’t Someone Do Something?
Jun 9
When tragedy strikes, there’s no end to the number of people crying out in public for us to ban together and “do something.”
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Reconciling Faith and Science
Mar 30
People ask me all the time how I can reconcile my faith in a creator God with my understanding of how the universe works.
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Rights and Derivative Works
Mar 22
I am a derivative work and I know exactly from whom my life, thoughts, and behaviors are derived. Do you?
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Priorities and Stereotypes
Feb 4
The last thing I ever expected to see in the Church was the singling out and mocking of a specific group of people. Even if that group was only football fans.