My occasional friend, Wes Cauthers, suggested that he and I attempt a podcast. Podcast might even me a misnomer. We are going to try and get to know each other better and all the while hit the record-button while we do it. Wes and I met over a decade ago, and we have bumped into […]
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RSS feed for this sectionNew Article Makes Some Daring Claims About the Biblical Gospel
Just published in Christianity Today/Leadership Journal is a new article that explores the “Biblical” gospel-proclaimed. So often, when discussing the message of the gospel, Christians rely upon passages from the letters of the Apostle Paul (or others) and yet these letters are not even examples of Christians talking to non-Christians, they are instead Christians talking to […]
New Article Makes Some Daring Claims About the Biblical Gospel
Just published in Christianity Today/Leadership Journal is a new article that explores the “Biblical” gospel-proclaimed. So often, when discussing the message of the gospel, Christians rely upon passages from the letters of the Apostle Paul (or others) and yet these letters are not even examples of Christians talking to non-Christians, they are instead Christians talking […]
New Podcast: "Choose Your Own Adventure Podcast"
My occasional friend, Wes Cauthers, suggested that he and I attempt a podcast. Podcast might even me a misnomer. We are going to try and get to know each other better and all the while hit the record-button while we do it. Wes and I met over a decade ago, and we have bumped into […]
Two Christian Responses to God's Justice
I recently wrote an article for Christianity Today/Leadership Journal called, “Why I gave back my assurance of salvation.” One the ideas that I pondered there was placing my hope in the idea that at the end of days, God will be just. God will do the just thing. It was a statement of hope, in […]
Pro-Death: A new article on Parse
In my new article over on Parse (a blog of Christianity Today). In it, I consider the idea that I (and we as a religious society) respond to the world and to our neighbors as if there are two kinds of sin. You can read the entire article here: http://www.christianitytoday.com/parse/2014/august/pro-death.html?paging=off One kind of sins are […]
Book Recommendation: "And God Said 'Billy'" by Frank Schaeffer
First of all, you need to know that I don’t read books. I know… crazy… but it’s true. I had some real learning challenges growing up (so books have never been my friends) and that, coupled with a hefty diet of 80’s cartoons and sitcoms, and well… you are left with a 43 year old […]
Thoughts on Writing for Christianity Today & New article on Parse
I write regularly for Christianity Today. I think I am a little bit the odd-ball nephew at CT, who they keep inviting over but can’t completely explain why they keep me around. Stay tuned for my next couple of articles over there. The working titles are: “Rejecting the Doctrine of ‘Assurance of Salvation’” and “We […]
"Learning from Weirdos" a new article at Leadership Journal
Every family has its weirdos. For some it is Aunt Trudy (the cat-lady), Cousin Sarah (who still can’t hold down a job), or maybe Uncle Chet, who always, always speaks his mind—whether his thoughts have anything to do with the occasion at hand … or not. We try not to exclude these characters from family gatherings, but sometimes we […]
Advantage: Heterogeneity
This morning I read this article over on the site “KelloggInsight”: http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/better_decisions_through_diversity. It is based on research by Katherine W. Phillips, Katie A. Liljenquist and Margaret A. Neale The basic conclusion of the research is this: Heterogeneous groups have been found to be more honest and more astute in their group processing, leading to better results. “Though […]