There is now a strong and perplexing dichotomy in American Christianity: the Social Justice Christian and the Libertarian Christian. Both have been formed and strengthened by the politics of the last 10 years. They are polars, they wage against each other, yet both ideologies base their belief in...

Recently I was riding the in the car with my dad discussing, of all things, death. My dad is a physician, and we were discussing the monumental costs and challenges that come with end of life care. I shared with him some conversations I had observed in classes at my seminary where both students and professors...

About six months ago, a little girl died. She was playing in the snow. I’m a newspaper reporter and my editor told me to ask her parents if they’d like to talk. I didn’t want to interrupt. I didn’t want to invite myself — and all of our readers — into their grief. I wanted to protect...

My son recently returned from band camp and recovered from his grueling work by catching up on the past week’s Daily Show and Colbert Report. Stewart and Colbert must have referred to the term “anchor baby” a half-dozen times in reference to the immigration debate in Arizona. “Anchor...

There are well-meaning good-hearted people on both sides of the Ground Zero mosque issue. I believe that, I really do. It’s just hard right now to see that, what with the way the people are carrying on. If I were Frank Peretti writing This Presence Darkness, I might imagine that demons are dancing,...

Our Principal, Ron Gorman, called an emergency meeting one day in March. I didn’t think anything of it, really. The last time a Principal called an emergency meeting it was Kurt Johnson telling us that he would no longer be our Principal. Secretly, we were all cheering and many went out for drinks...

In the early twentieth century, Sigmund Freud became famous for asking the question, “What does a woman want?”  He concluded the problem with women was they were hysterical, and what they wanted most was to be manually stimulated to orgasm.  It was an innovative solution to women’s quandaries,...

The Twitter-verse runs on speed and the rush to judgement. So when Rick Warren tweeted I challenge any church in America to match the spiritual maturity, godliness & commitment of any 500 members of Saddleback. Christian social media jockeys rushed to their chairs and pecked out their assessments....

Having recently attended a hipster church in Los Angeles, I sat in the audience marveling at a phenomenon which has swept through Christendom. I find “cults of celebrity” highly disturbing. “Cult” is a volatile term to use in relationship to churches, but I lament that it is somewhat...

(Editor’s Note: Becky Garrison is awesome.  Sometimes, she sends us stuff to publish, and we feel awesome, too.  This previously appeared at Killing the Buddha, which is also awesome.) God may not have appeared to Mother Theresa, but He needs to promote His book. For the uninitiated, Book Expo...