(This post might be a bit spicy for some readers. For context, I write this as a former Lead Pastor of a megachurch who currently has numerous Lead Pastor friends.)
A comparison dawned on me recently. There was a time (I'd suggest sometime after the Civil Rights era up until COVID) when being a L...
I’m starting something new, and I want to tell you about it.
Every Friday, I’m going to start sending out a special newsletter to the members of our online community. I’m calling it Friday Recap, and I already suspect it will become one of my favorite ways to connect.
It’s part weekly digest, part...
I recently exchanged emails with a friend who follows my blog. He was responding to my podcast episode about Jesus’ words in Matthew 25 (see: What Makes a Nation Christian?). You may remember the episode in question. It's where Jesus doesn’t mention church attendance, correct doctrine, or having the...
For the 50th episode of Cabernet and Pray (time flies when you're drinking wine), I decided to celebrate the milestone the only way that felt right... diving headfirst into one of the most loaded, misunderstood, and fiercely debated questions in American Christianity:
Is the United States a Chri...
Let’s talk about doubt.
Not the kind you whisper in the back row of a church service or scribble in a journal you hope no one ever reads. I’m talking about the big, lingering, soul-level questions.Â
If that’s you, or if it used to be, or if you’re worried it might be someday, then I want to invite...
The other night, I mobile-ordered some sodas from our local Sonic (our crew is split between Diet Dr. Pepper and Diet Coke drinkers). Upon receiving my order, IÂ discovered they were all Diet Dr. Pepper. I checked my app and realized I had mistakenly ordered it wrong.
When I talked with the employee...
In the latest episode of Cabernet and Pray, I explored an idea that might initially sound like it doesn’t belong in Christianity: the paradox of tolerance.Â
Here’s the question I posed: At what point does our hospitality toward one person become hostility toward everyone else?
I opened with a s...
Admittedly, I'm not one for celebrating war. My journey of following Jesus into nonviolence has meant that I often distance myself from much of what my culture celebrates. Nonetheless, I'm reading a book by General Stanley McChrystal that reminded me of my own journey.
In talking about doing hard t...
If you’ve ever wanted to sit across the table from Brian Zahnd, pour a glass of wine, and talk about Jesus, you’re in luck—because that’s exactly what we did in the latest episode of Cabernet and Pray. And yes, it was as good as it sounds.
Brian is one of those voices in the modern church that m...
I received a text on Easter that said, “He is risen (probably),” and I haven’t stopped laughing about it. That tongue-in-cheek phrase captured something I think a lot of us feel—especially those of us who care deeply about faith and yet have our doubts. In the latest episode of Cabernet and Pray,...
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