I've been reading an advanced copy of Diana Butler Bass' upcoming book, A Beautiful Year (accompanying podcast episode coming soon!). In it, she offers an insight into first-century fishing that I hadn't heard before.
In ancient Rome, you didnât work for yourself. You didnât scroll through LinkedIn...
Somewhere along the way, Christians started singing, preaching, and declaring a mantra that sounds pious on the surface but is actually deeply destructive: âWe donât deserve Godâs love.â I hear it regularly in worship services. But letâs pause and ask the obvious question:
Why don't we deserve Godâ...
The Apostle Paul once wrote to the church in Rome about food.
At that time, some believers felt free to eat meat that had been sacrificed to idols, while others were convinced this was sinful. It was the same church community gathered because of the same gospel, but it was producing two wildly diff...
Recently I've heard that people on the left are more intolerant of differing opinions than people on the right. And hereâs the thing: I actually think thatâs true. But not for the reasons you might think.Â
Let me explain.
If you set a left-leaning society next to a right-leaning society, something...
When the ancient Jews were building the Temple of God, they had a unique restriction on how they handled the stones for it. "The stones used in the construction of the Temple were finished at the quarry, so there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site" (1 Kings 6:7)....
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...
In the latest episode of Cabernet and Pray, I explored an idea that might initially sound like it doesnât belong in Christianity: the paradox of tolerance.Â
Hereâs the question I posed: At what point does our hospitality toward one person become hostility toward everyone else?
I opened with a s...
I received a text on Easter that said, âHe is risen (probably),â and I havenât stopped laughing about it. That tongue-in-cheek phrase captured something I think a lot of us feelâespecially 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 ...
This past Sunday, IÂ preached about the often-misunderstood practice of confession. Most of us feel instant anxiety when we hear the word "confession" - similar to what I felt when I once discovered my hotel room had clear glass bathroom walls! I'll never forget that moment of panic, standing ther...
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