I kind of hated Richard St. Ofle when I first started reading his autobiographical debut, No Wolf.   I turned page after page, mad at the narrator–and consequently, by virtue of the genre, the author.  From there, I quickly made the jump to the male population as a whole.  That might sound...

It’s been over a year since we last spoke to mega-church phenomenon Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Today, Burnside Writers Collective correspondent John Wofford talks about the completion of the popular Nooma teaching series, Bell’s reaction to recent developments...

As the debate over LGBT rights rages on, rising statistical trends show growing support for the gay community in the church. At the forefront of this movement is the Gay Christian Network, a non-profit organization that has worked with the likes of Tony and Peggy Campolo and Canadian religious program...

The intersection of Burnside and SW Stark in downtown Portland. In 2005, I Googled Don Miller’s name after reading Blue Like Jazz. This led me to BWC. Ten minutes later, I knew I’d found a home. Big names like Donald Miller, Lauren Winner, and Derek Webb drew me in, but I stayed because of Jordan...

Donald Miller is the best-selling author of Blue Like Jazz, Searching for God Knows What, Through Painted Deserts and To Own a Dragon. He is currently writing his fifth book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, which explores the principles of story-telling in our lives. A feature film is in the works...

I wrote the Summer Reading Guide for the May/June issue of Relevant magazine. In conjunction with that article, I conducted short interviews with Makoto Fujimura, our own Susan Isaacs, and Father Emmanuel Katongole, who is a Catholic priest, an associate professor at Duke Divinity School, and the author...

Jacques Ellul’s seminal Presence of the Kingdom has two primary points. The first focuses on politics, and argues Christians should not participate in government whenever possible (I’ve oversimplified here). The second topic is the concept of “technics”, the idea technology has...

(Editor’s Note: For this edition of Burnside Sells Out, Larry Shallenberger offered to interview David Zimmerman, author of Deliver Us from Me-Ville and Comic Book Character: Unleashing the Hero in Us All.) BWC: David, you wrote a book about your narcissism, how you managed to escape it, and how...

Prayers for Blowouts, our athletic cousin blog, has interviewed such notable celebrities as Will Leitch, Brian McLaren and Ernie Johnson. And now, in what may be Bryan Allain’s finest and most insightful interview to date, I can be counted among those great men. Greater? Well, that’s not...

Bryan Allain got what, for the sports blogging world, is the get of gets today: an interview with Will Leitch on Prayers for Blowouts. I like to picture Bryan right there, sitting across from Will, chewing thoughtfully on a pen. Last week, Leitch wrote in his weekly NFL column on Deadspin that he grew...