Category: Church Issues

I am usually loathe to write about issues regarding sexuality as they create more heat than light and rarely affirm either the Gospel or the ministry I believe I’m entrusted with. However, a recent...

Finding Church I’ve spent a good bit of my adult life studying and thinking about the early Church. While much of my work has focused on the fourth century of the Christian era, I’ve...

1. A few years ago after the floods in Nashville, a friend sent me a picture of a person dressed in protective gear helping clean up peoples homes in the aftermath. Just another volunteer...

While I recognize that we live in broken sexual culture and that the threats to a traditional and healthy sexuality abound, I have been hesitant to write about it. The reason for this is...

The New Pornography of Hate and Violence It circulates across our television and computer screens every day. One mass shooting follows another. It no longer seems to matter if the victims are children or...

1. Maybe…just maybe…Christians will now take all the money and energy they squandered on politics and pour it into evangelism and discipleship…you know, church stuff…maybe that’s how you change a culture…maybe… 2. Oddly enough,...

Today, millions of Christians will go to the polls and “vote for godliness” and “take a stand for Jesus” while the church itself is a cesspool of corruption, abuse and heresy. They will go...

As I sit at my desk this morning I’m aware that tomorrow is Election Day and my Oregon mail in ballot is serving as a coaster for my coffee cup. At some point, I’ll...