Mercy Not Sacrifice

2015-02-03

What is God’s attitude toward our sin? How you answer this question says a lot about your theology. According to conservative evangelical Christianity...

2015-01-29

[Trigger warning: genuinely confused but well-intentioned dudebro asking honest questions that may be offensive and/or ignorant] I refrained from writing...

2015-01-24

Is humanity good or evil? Some conservative evangelicals would say that the answer to this question defines the difference between their worldview and...

2015-01-19

This photo pretty well captures the personality of my crazy, wonderful grandpa, Ralph Storm, whose funeral my family celebrated this past week. When I...

2015-01-15

Most cultures in human history have had some concept of God, whether it’s one god or many gods, whether these gods are good or evil or a mix of both....

2015-01-09

Today’s psalm from the Presbyterian daily lectionary was Psalm 46. A couple of lines in this psalm are very popular, like verse 1: “God is our refuge...

2015-01-07

First of all, I’m completely dissatisfied with the title. Few words are more played out in the Christian blogosphere than “radical.” And yet I can’t think...

2015-01-05

Yesterday in church, our pastor prayed, “Make us comfortable with being uncomfortable.” I’d been looking for a New Year’s resolution, vision statement...

2015-01-01

A lot of bloggers at the end of the year put out a list of their top-performing posts for people to read again. I wanted to do something a little different...

2014-12-29

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine shared a set of ten “non-commandments” for atheists that had been compiled through a national contest. I thought...