Author and podcaster Jill Sirianni says that “Learning always happens in relationships.”
This tends to be more obvious when we’re younger. Children learn from parents. Students learn from teachers. Teammates learn from coaches. Our whole existence is one giant game of “monkey see, monkey do."
But ...
I'd like to suggest something that may sound a bit outlandish at first: Your posture around your faith is more important than the beliefs you hold within it. Or said differently, if we had to pick one, posture is more important than doctrines.
Does this sound like heresy?
I would understand if you...
(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...
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...
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,...
Today I posted my latest episode for Cabernet and Pray. It's a conversation with Brandan Robertson about being queer and Christian. Brandan is about to release a book that unpacks these ideas and as I read an early copy of it, I was absolutely blown away by the depth of his arguments and the way ...
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