The most competent thing Job's friends ever did required no words.

"Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words." (Job 2:13, NLT)

Seven days. Then Job spoke, and the chaos began. 

If you have le...

What would you say if you found out one of your kids was gay?

Or maybe it isn't your child, but a family member or close friend who comes out to you. Some of you have already had this experience. I suspect quite a few readers are afraid of what to do if it happens.

You probably have an established...

I have the audacity to believe Jesus will eventually save everyone.

I hold this belief for two reasons. First, I have a high view of God. I don't think the creator of all of the beauty I see around me is also a designer who will end up writing off a majority of that creation as a loss for all etern...

You're not likely to find a church that celebrates the work of both Charlie Kirk and Rob Bell. Every hero is someone else's villain, even when the tribe looks similar. I've spent my whole life inside this, and I still hold out hope for what the church can be. Which is exactly why navigating it feels...

It is one in the morning, and I am the captain of a stolen ship.

The Jackdaw is mine. The Caribbean is a wall of turquoise light, a storm is rolling in from the east, and I am chasing a Spanish frigate across water that Ubisoft has rendered with what I can only describe as unreasonable beauty. Assa...

"We all have three voices: the one we think with, the one we speak with, and the one we write with. When you stutter, two of those are always at war." John Hendrickson

I don't personally deal with stuttering, but John's insight about our three voices hits on something any communicator knows well. W...

"The Edge of the Inside will save the faith of some, transform the faith of others, and spark faith in many for the first time." That's a line from Greg Boyd in the foreword to my book. I pray he's right.

Today, The Edge of the Inside has officially been released into the world.

If you could have ...

I've been waiting to share this news for a long time now.

After I stepped away from my role as a Lead Pastor in 2020, I began a brutal unmaking of so many things I believed about myself, the church, and God. I expected to retire in my role and never gave much thought to any other future. The New Te...

My favorite Christmas story is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I read the book every December, and we watch The Muppet Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve (which is obviously the best film depiction by far).

It's easy to think that A Christmas Carol is a story about greed and about how rich p...

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 didn’t work for yourself. You didn’t scroll through LinkedIn...