Christian. Worldview. Thinking.
“Go,” Naomi said quietly, almost in a whisper. (Continued from Re-Imagining Ruth Part 1) After stopping to gather her nerve, she began again. “Go home. Go back to your mother's house.” The tears began as she drew them near and blessed … [Continue reading]
Tim Lambesis was the frontman and leader of a Christian metal band called As I Lay Dying... until he was arrested for trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife. The case garnered a lot of headlines. Shortly before he was sentenced, Lambesis … [Continue reading]
It was time. Naomi stopped and stood still, staring down the road in front of her at nothing in particular. The sun was well on its way up the sky, but the heat was not yet overwhelming, and the sound of livestock in the distance went … [Continue reading]
I once wrote a 25-page doctoral research paper in which I defended the idea that there is a normative, objective standards of beauty just as there is a normative, objective standard of truth. Unfortunately (though some might say fortunately), that … [Continue reading]
We spent many years in Louisville, KY, while I was doing MDiv and PhD work at Southern Seminary. While we were there we got involved with a new church plant being led by fellow student Daniel Montgomery. Though it started pretty small, today Sojourn … [Continue reading]
A thought-provoking start to the week: "Always you renounce a lesser good for a greater; the opposite is what sin is.... The struggle to submit... is not a struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. … [Continue reading]
Is this the next face of American Evangelicalism? Quick: Who are the biggest pastor celebrities in American culture? For better or worse (and I'm leaning worse), American Evangelicals do tend to love celebrity preachers. Every "tribe" of … [Continue reading]