The parable of the talents has always bothered me. If you’re not familiar with it, in Luke 19 Jesus tells […]

If you happen to turn on your television or computer (or even open your newspaper or advertising mailer), you’re likely […]

I recently had a meeting that I was very anxious about. I worried I had done something wrong and was […]

I was writhing in fury in the balcony of a Colorado Springs megachurch one Saturday night in 2013. I gripped […]

A few weeks ago, Hemant Mehta, aka the Friendly Atheist, posted a story on Twitter about Christians behaving badly. He […]

Because of Psalm 14:1 (“Fools say in their hearts, ‘There is no God’”) there are jokes about April Fools’ Day […]

I used to not care much for God’s justice. That’s because I thought of justice like Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Polly. […]

At my church, we pray the Lord’s Prayer every single Sunday. It is the same words every week. The Lord’s […]

At the center of the Christian faith and the Christian story is the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. That’s important […]