Karen Spears Zacharias has a thing for trailers.  She grew up, found Jesus, fell in love, and even delivered her first child in a trailer.  She recently published her fourth book, Will Jesus Buy Me A Double Wide?, and took time out of her busy book tour schedule to answer that question and share her...

If you’re one of those “it’s all going to burn up anyway” Christians, in love with your dispensationalism, there’s a good chance you’ll be eating a big slab of meat tonight, cooked over a fire (maybe burn a few California Redwoods?), complemented by a pesticide laced...

Chicago is my favorite place in the world. I feel so lucky to be able to wake up in this city every day. Of course, I don’t mean to discriminate against the Northwest, because I’ve only heard the kindest words about Seattle and Portland. It’s just that I’ve never been there before...

Nneka Concrete Jungle (Decon) It’s strange–whenever I think I don’t like Nneka’s new Concrete Jungle very much, I go back and listen again, and something changes my mind. I guess it’s a good sign that I keep going back. For instance, the song “Kangpe” boasts...

In between sharing pics of his Jersey Shore makeover and playing Taboo while promoting his latest film Youth in Revolt on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last month (January 25, 2010, episode), Michael Cera talked about his reputation as a photobomber.  Nothing at all as terrorizing as the underwear bomber,...

Mount Si A cold blue hangs on the deck and drips off the flowers falling from the verandas. The sun is far from rising above the Cascades and the raccoons are far, miles miles miles, from the mess they made with the trash by the steep street earlier that night. The mug in his hand holds...

“I’m sure God sent them to us.” Politicians love to claim credit for the big – and best – changes of history. Life is rarely so simple. There are those odd little movements like twitches on obscure nerve endings that end up reverberating throughout cultures and eras. The twentieth...

Survey the landscape of American Christianity on any given Sunday and you’ll find plenty of evidence that God is on the throne, we’re walking in victory, and Satan’s utterly crushed.  There are lots of praise choruses about our victory and God’s goodness, along with clapping...

I always look forward to Lent. It’s probably theologically-flawed, but I think of it as a spiritual new year of sorts, a fresh start. Will you do anything to set apart this time? I liked this “experience calendar” from Mars Hill. Here are a few other things I enjoyed around the web...

Some time ago I found myself in Denver for a conference. Knowing absolutely nobody, I set myself down in an open chair at a session, next to this guy who was decked out to the nines in punk uniform. Leather, studs, chains, tattoos, piercings, hair dye, mohawk—he jangled whenever he shifted in his seat....