Rants.

2023

27 Nov. Happy holidays!

17 Oct. Standing with Israel?

3 Jun. Pride Month.

13 May. Attendance and membership numbers, and institutional dishonesty.

6 May. Being an influencer.

22 Apr. Christianity needs to be woke.

2022

9 Nov. Bummed your candidate lost?*

13 May. Why Amazon is my favorite Christian bookstore.

2021

23 Dec. Santa Claus and misplaced, misunderstood faith.

15 Jul. “You don’t know his heart.”*

2020

12 Oct. Happy Halloween. Bought your candy yet?*

29 Aug. Kamala Harris and religious affiliation.

8 Aug. White Jesus… and those who insist he stay that way.

10 Jun. The subtler type of racism.

14 Feb. Valentine’s Day acrostics.

2019

25 Oct. When a well-known Christian quits Jesus.

12 Jul. The Graham rule.

21 Jan. Happy Martin Luther King Jr.® day!

2018

28 Dec. Give to the truly needy. Not the greedy.

2 Nov. “The most important election of your life,” it’s not.

26 Oct. False witness and fake news.

12 Oct. What Pelagius did or didn’t teach.

28 Sep. I am not the baseline. (Neither are you.)

14 Sep. Christianity is under attack!*

7 Sep. Homecoming 2008.

31 Aug. Hating the opposition.

10 Aug. On sexists. Sorry, “complementarians.”

3 Aug. Outside and inside of the Bible Belt.

27 Jul. My pacifism. Sorta.

20 Jul. “He had some good bits.”

13 Jul. Problematic worship music.

6 Jul. Reusing the bottle.

29 Jun. A religion without works.

22 Jun. Being a member of the jerk club.

15 Jun. On tipping and overtipping.

8 Jun. Paranoia will destroy ya.

1 Jun. The “recovering atheist”?

2017

9 Oct. Guns, and why we Americans don’t control them.

2 Oct. Relevance, and blogging on current events.

4 Sep. The Nashville Statement, and sexism.

28 Aug. Same-gender marriage in the United States.

23 Aug. How to annoy people. Or not.

7 Aug. Swiping my words.

31 Jul. The king’s English.

24 Jul. TXAB’s spoiler policy.

17 Jul. Eugene Peterson’s rough week.

10 Jul. Getting baptized.

26 Jun. Why friends and family don’t read my blog.

12 Jun. Christians, Islamophobia, and “Who Is Allah?”

5 Jun. Evangelicals, climate change, and creation care.

22 May. “Who’s in charge of these bloggers?”

15 May. Humor, sarcasm, irony, mockery, me.

8 May. When I became a theologian.

1 May. Simony: Christians who wanna make a buck off you.

24 Apr. “I’ve never heard that before.”

17 Apr. Who’s the Man? That’d be us Christians.

20 Feb. Christians in private, but reprobate in public.

6 Feb. The Johnson amendment, and preaching the wrong kingdom.

30 Jan. I’m a self-discoverer? Not really.

23 Jan. Footprints. (My version.)

9 Jan. Tattoos require commitment.

2 Jan. Good and bad bible translations.

2016

19 Dec. Growing up with Santa Claus.

12 Dec. The live nativity.

5 Dec. Easy to shop for.

21 Nov. Questioning authority.

7 Nov. Translating it myself. (And why that’s okay.)

31 Oct. “Be careful, little eyes…”

17 Oct. Things I want when I’m in a coma.

3 Oct. Bad candidates, Big Pictures, and false prophets.

23 Sep. Doesn’t matter how “prolife” the president is.

16 Sep. Is it worth our time for me to be the advice guy?

9 Sep. My favorite End Times novel.

2 Sep. The sucky starfish story.

26 Aug. My first Chick tract: “Bewitched?”

19 Aug. Teaching science at a Christian school.

12 Aug. My big-ass bibles.

5 Aug. Picking your label.

2015

21 Nov. My irritating politics.

14 Nov. How CCLI shakes down your church.

31 Oct. Positive. Encouraging. White. K-LOVE.

17 Oct. Synchrobloggery.

10 Oct. On hearing from God. Or not.

3 Oct. The spiritual gifts test.

19 Sep. How I got mixed up with the Assemblies of God.

12 Sep. Son of God and cheesy Jesus movies.