“I cannot relate to this at all,” said the young woman with brown eyes full of curiosity. “I’ve never been told I couldn’t do something just because I was female. My family and the church I grew up in affirmed women to be everything God has called us to be. I never experienced what you’re...

In 2004, Russ Masterson went on a fast. It wasn’t a fast from sugar or alcohol or the internet or cell phones. He fasted the old-fashioned way. For forty days, Russ Masterson didn’t eat food. Russ chronicles that fast in 40 Days Without Food: Divine Goodness to a Starving Soul, an e-book...

Richard Dahlstrom is the first to admit that his story is not one of those faith-making tales of abuse or addiction and God’s eventual redemption.  It’s the story of growing up in the proverbial healthy Christian home where the norm was baseball games, good grades and Saturday night spaghetti....

We warned you we’d be pimping this book thing pretty hard.  If you didn’t get the memo, the three of us wrote a book called Besides the Bible – 100 Books That Have, Should, or Will Change Christian Culture.  It’s being heralded the greatest book about books ever written, or...

(Editor’s Note: This is our third excerpt from Besides the Bible – 100 Books That Have, Should or Will Change Christian Culture.  This time, John Pattison writes on Shusaku Endo’s Silence. You can learn more about our book, Besides the Bible, here and here. You can buy it here.) Francis...

(Editor’s Note: Here’s round two of our long, slow burn of a marketing campaign: my essay on Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness.  You can learn more about our book, Besides the Bible, here and here.  You can buy it here.) There’s an inherent snag to writing Christian action:...

(Editor’s Note: Remember that marketing onslaught I told you about?  Here’s the first salvo: Dan Gibson’s essay on Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.  You can learn more about our book, Besides the Bible, here and here.  You can buy it here.) As a writer, I always...

So, remember when Dan Gibson and I did this? It was a couple summers ago.  Dan and I drove from Phoenix/Tucson to Denver for the 2009 International Christian Retail Show.  We went for a number of reasons, but I think we mostly went because we’d have fun doing it.  Thanks primarily to the Falling...

Editor’s Note: Burnside contributor Chad Gibbs recently traveled to the twelve schools of the SEC to explore the intersection of faith and fandom. Chad recounts his journey in “God and Football” (Zondervan). The book is funny and insightful no matter what conference you belong to. It...

A few months after this site started up, which seems like 10 years ago, I received an emailed article about golf from some Alabamian named Chad Gibbs. “No one cares about golf,” I muttered.  But I read it anyway, and it was surprisingly funny, so we ran it. Then Chad sent another article,...