“If Only I Had Her Verbs! On Jealousy, Creativity, and a Generous God.”
It was the title of a plenary session talk about to be given by Rachel Held Evans at a ...
I don't claim to understand every nuance of the relationship between our first parents Adam and Eve and God, but I do know there was relationship. That relation...
In all honesty I’m friends with a lot more people on social media than I could ever REALLY keep up with. That being said, I see a lot of comments and quotations...
My boys have no concept of danger. No one has told them that certain things that they might want to do might be impossible for them. No one has told them that t...
It's the age-old question:
How good do I have to be to get into heaven?
It's not really that we want to know how bad we can be—how much we can get away with...
It takes a lot to get me out of the house in winter. I'm trying to renegotiate the basic human need for food so I can eliminate grocery store trips, but so far ...
John Owen, the great Puritan theologian, said, “Be killing sin or sin will be killing you.” That is heavy to think about. Let that weigh on your mind for a few ...
Last year I challenged our adult Sunday School class to try reading the Bible in a year. In anticipation of starting this process I spent our Sunday School hour...
This is the most listened to episode in Speak UP history. Not quite sure why this seemed to go viral with over 17,000 listens, but it was a very good show. It m...
I remember a conversation that I had with a parent who believes that kids should not hear a lot of the things in the Bible because they are too violent.
Some...
I apologize to you, the people of the world.
I apologize for my part in making Christmas necessary. I have learned that Christ is NOT the reason for the season...
The moment Pablo Sandoval caught the foul ball of Salvador Perez off the third base line for the final out of the 2014 World Series, my phone blew up. I was rec...
