Burnside is blessed with a whole slew of talented contributors. Sometimes, to our utter delight, those contributors become published, and some area already established authors. Our to goal is to interview each and every one for this feature, which we’ve entitled “Burnside Sells Out”....

Some days, when work gets stressful, Anthropologie becomes a lunchtime haven. Smelling of exotic candles and laden with more-often-than-not faux-vintage trinkets, the chain store that doesn’t feel like a chain always plays a carefully selected mix of indie and world music that makes the casual...

With his book Blue Parakeet, Scot McKnight builds an ancient-future perspective of theology and hermeneutics. As in A Community Called Atonement, McKnight is tackling the issue of hermeneutics, particularly the interpretation of blue parakeets (passages that create tension, division, and bewilderment)...

Hello Darlings! My name is Prince Beelzebub, but my friends call me Prince B. The pimps in the eighth circle bequeathed me with this moniker some thirty years ago and it stuck. PrinceB at your service, my dears. I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Waiting for the time when Satan lost interest in...

There’s a fascinating but overlooked scene at the end of Namaan’s story in 2 Kings. Namaan was the military genius who architected Syria’s rise to power. Syria would eventually invade the Northern Kingdom and leave it a wasteland. However, we meet Namaan when Syria was still a rising star. As such,...

The span of years from immediately after World War II up until around 1963 is generally viewed in a number of ways. Conservatives tend to remember the 1950s with an awed nostalgia. It was a time when you could leave your doors unlocked, when families stayed together, when people were moral and upright....

Anti-drug campaigns rail against marijuana because of its acclaimed as a “gateway drug,” the harbinger of greater evils to come. But what about “gateway music” – that band, that sound, the one that opens up a young, naive music fan’s ears to deeper, more complex music? In some circles,...

Happy 90th birthday, Mr. Graham! Thank you for being an example to us all, believer or not.

When I finished seminary, I was working as a carpet cleaner in Los Angeles, traveling throughout the city in a van and pumping steamed water into stained fabric. This trade allowed me conversation with a large cross section of humanity, and the many conversations I had about God during those days were,...