As I was growing up in my public school and my Baptist church in suburban Ohio, “Lent” was always a curious time of year for me. Never talked about at my church, I always wondered why on Fridays many of my friends had to eat fish and weren’t allowed to have meat. I wondered even […]
“What to Do if I Married the Wrong Person?”
If you’re in a dry season of your marriage, you’ve more than likely thought about any number of the following:
A Lament for a Church that Preaches Jesus
A lament My heart is heavy from a Bible that says defend the oppressed and a Church that says just preach Jesus. Just preach Jesus, but don’t preach anything he stood for or taught. I will leave your church if you do. Don’t preach about touching lepers or loving the poor or proclaiming liberty to […]
34% of singles have had sex before a first date…and how we’ve all contributed to this
An article in the USA Today section of the Lansing State Journal caught my eye recently, “Sex before first date OK, but a cracked phone? Think again.” The article breaks down some of the 2017 Singles in America survey, an annual survey funded by the dating service Match. The most jaw-dropping takeaway from the survey […]
Gently Addressing 4 Misconceptions About Immigration & Refugees
I didn’t grow up around immigrants or refugees. When undocumented immigrants started coming across my news radar a few years ago, I was confused. I figured a person could just go to the Secretary of State’s office and apply for citizenship and be on their way, so why weren’t these immigrants doing just that? I […]
Suffering & Living Like this World is Heaven
Suffering is one of the most common reasons people doubt God. If God is so loving, how can such bad things happen? Trite statements by Christians only make this worse: Something good will come out this, just wait. God has a purpose for everything. Something good will come out of rape, child abuse, or the […]