Holiness Reeducation

I have spent two days trying to name a better action movie than The Avengers (which I saw in 3D on the IMAX on Saturday night) and I can’t do it. It has instantly jumped to the best action movie I have ever encountered. So for this great cinematic achievement let me offer some reflections [...]

And then he told them a parable. He said, “The Kingdom of God is like a group of poor and oppressed people who are ruled by a vindictive government. They are forced to labor for the prosperity of others and to live by the rules of those who have conquered them. They are forced to [...]

I really appreciate a pastor who writes a chapter called Can we ______? and then fills in the blank with some of the more difficult questions a pastor gets asked about sex. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a first review of Mark and Grace Driscoll’s book Real Marriage. Today I am reviewing the [...]

There are few Christian leaders guaranteed to make more news than Mark Driscoll. With the release of his latest book Real Marriage, co-written with his wife Grace, there has been a tremendous amount of news created. The book has sold very well. The book has been reviewed by lots of people. A lot of people [...]

As often happens in my life, I have a collection of books I am currently reading or preparing to read. Looking at Kindle I realized that I now have ten in the hopper that need to be consumed and digested before adding anything else to the menu. Here are the books I am reading and [...]

It was a normal Sunday night, I was watching football, reading a book and chatting with my wife. Little did I know my life would be changed (in disturbing ways) by a show that just happened to flash by on the TV. I am speaking of The Virgin Diaries on TLC. This is a “reality [...]

I just read a really interesting review of the book The END of Sexual Identity by Jenell Williams Paris over at Jesus Creed. I haven’t read the book yet, but I am adding it to my short list of books to read soon. Here is an excerpt from the review. If you are interested in [...]

If you haven’t heard that Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away last week then you aren’t reading this blog because you obviously have never been on the internet before. There has been a tremendous amount of attention the past week on the life and passing of Steve Jobs. The entire thing is frankly a bit [...]

I am always on the look out for music that speaks to preaching and this week it is the Avett Brothers on my mind. (It just so happens that Gretchen and I are seeing them in concert on Thursday). This song, And it Spread, has been swimming around in the sermon section of my brain [...]

In Christian Smith’s book the Bible Made Impossible he offers a critique and response to the views and practices of biblicists within evangelicalism. (You can see my earlier posts on this idea – part 1, part 2, part 3) In the second half of the book he makes the important shift from his deconstruction of [...]