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If you search for “the pagan roots of Easter” you will find such statements as this:

The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits, hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon. ...

I did nothing to officially observe Lent this year even though we now go to a church that has Lenten specific services. But, having a new baby makes it difficult to do a whole lot of anything. Still, I thought Lent would be a good time of year to write something on the subject of sanctification.

As a side note I’m not exactly sure why we...

Again, I was listening to Econtalk in which the host Russ Roberts and guest Emanuel Derman, a former physicist, discussed an issue – theories, models and science – that can be applied to Christianity. The basic idea is that th...

I was recently listening to an interview on Econ Talk with Nassim Taleb (The author of The Black Swan) on the subject of antifragility – a...

In a couple of my most recent posts concerning manliness I’ve stated that shaming is not an effective way to motivate men to “act like men”. I’m going to say a little more about that in this post.

I recently read a book by Richard Weissbourd entitled “The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermin...

Tomorrow, February 7th if everything goes as planned, Jessi will give birth to a baby boy. Though I am excited to have a boy, I’m also afraid. Now I have a man to raise. It’s not as if raising a girl to be a good woman is any easier, but it’s different and there are certain challenges I would probably have been able to avoid.

This is a follow up to my previous post Church/Law/Religion?

How are we supposed to live the Christian life? Do we just get to keep on sinning since God’s grace will cover it all? Or, are we actually supposed to do that which Jesus commands? If so, how? How do those who have already believed the Gospel live in light of it?

Recently I was thinking about the fact that many people feel that they’ve been hurt by religion. They feel like they’ve been judged by religious people. Many people raised in the Church, don’t go to a church anymore because they were made to feel bad when they did. This isn’t all bad though – it’s good to feel bad. Now, before you conclude that I’m just another horrible religio...

     I spent the last couple of post critiquing others, in this post I’m going to criticize myself.

     A couple of posts ago – Church Plant Update: An Ending – I referenced Acts 6:2-4 which says:

     It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tab...

This post is partially in response to this blog post by Donald Miller: Should the Church be led by teachers and scholars? 

In America we have a strong anti-intellectual streak running through ou...