Less than a week ago it was 95* outside, today we’ll probably get up to 65*. Fall sure came fast. 1. Matthew Lee Anderson wrote a piece for Relevant Magazine following some comments from my favorite person, Pat Robertson. I won’t give away the whole story, but basically Robertson said divorcing and moving on from [...]

I’ve been in several conversations lately talking about whether or not we can truly “experience” God through worship or teaching or community. It’s quite common (I know I’ve done this plenty of times), when praying for an upcoming church gathering, to pray with hope that the people who come will be able to experience God. [...]

I wanted to posted about this last week but I didn’t want to bring more attention to something that was only taking away from where the focus should have been on the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, 2001. A few weeks ago the Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, announced that no clergy would [...]

I was in a car with my dad and sister, listening to K-Love when I first heard about a plane hitting one of the Twin Towers in NYC. When I got to school all the teachers had the news showing on their classroom tvs. It was the first time in my life that such a [...]

Over the past few weeks at my church we’ve been discussing what to do with Christmas falling on a Sunday this year. I would imagine many other churches are having to make a similar decision right now. Back in 2005, churches had the same decision to make with Christmas Day also falling on a Sunday. [...]

Several weeks ago I was in a conversation that I found to be increasingly frustrating. The conversation was with someone I am very close to, but we do have our disagreements in politics and theology. My friend was objectifying groups of people to be this or that without having any experience with any specific people [...]