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Captain Justice, Laudable Saints and Convenient Fantasies (by Margot Starbuck)
This weekend’s guest post comes to us from Margot Starbuck. I had the pleasure of meeting Margot for coffee when she was in Dayton to speak at Bryan College last semester, and I just loved her. Funny,...
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Two questions for Millennials and Gen X-ers
This weekend I’ll be speaking to the Arizona Foundation for Contemporary Theology about how my generation of Christians is evolving. And because the comment section consistently proves that my readers...
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Sunday Superlatives 1/22/2012
I’m in Arizona today hanging out with the good people of Tempe United Methodist Church, so I’ve got just a few Sunday Superlatives today...but they’re good ones! Funniest Photo:Catalog Living with...
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2 Reasons Mark Driscoll’s popularity doesn’t discourage me
So I spent the last four days in Tempe, Arizona, hanging out with the good folks from the Arizona Foundation for Contemporary Theology, Tempe First United Methodist Church, and Christians for Biblical...
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Ask Dan and Rachel...
It’s been over a year since we did the last “Ask Dan and Rachel” video post. Now that my year of biblical womanhood is over, I thought you might have some questions for us—about the project, about our...
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The Church has been “effeminized” for a long time...
Despite the fact that men outnumbered women in the Greco-Roman world, women, especially widows, joined the early church in droves. In the second century, the pagan Celsus criticized Christianity,...
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Ask Dan and Rachel – Gender Roles, Kettle Corn, and Blogging Blues
We were only able to answer a few of your questions in the video, so I’ve gone back through the comments after yesterday’s post to respond to the questions we don’t tackle here. (Find out which one...
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Hey Pastors, Don't be afraid to use the f-word
It's back! The second Epic Fail Pastors Conference is scheduled for March 22-24, 2012. I’m a fan of this conference for a couple of reasons: 1. When I wrote a post entitled “Dear Pastors – Tell Us...
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Sunday Superlatives 1/29/2012
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Indecision 2012 - The Gingrich Who Stole South Carolina www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily...
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A very "biblical" blog post
“Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read’st black where I read white”- William Blake In the coming weeks, we’ll be diving into some excellent books about how to read the Bible—N.T. Wright’s...
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They Were Right (And Wrong) About the Slippery Slope
They said that if I questioned a 6,000-year-old earth, I would question whether other parts of Scripture should be read scientifically and historically. They were right. I did. They said that if...
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I Could Have Used This Book Twelve Years Ago: A Review of “The Evolution of...
Within the first week of my freshman year of college, my Introduction to World Literature class included a reading of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian myth about a hero who is described as 1/3 man...
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Ask a Christian Libertarian...
At the beginning of the year, when I asked what sort of people you would like to talk to via our interview series, one of the most popular suggestions was to interview Christians who identified with...
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John Piper wants a “masculine Christianity.” What do you think?
**Important Update: Guys, please leave links to your posts here instead.** “God has chosen to liken Himself to a female and we are the fruit of His womb.” – John Calvin On Tuesday, at the...
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Thank You, Brothers! (Leave your links here)
So my call for guys to write blog posts that honor women and celebrate the feminine images of God in Scripture has been absolutely overwhelming. Some favorites so far: Landon Whitsitt with “Mama’s...
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January 2012: Most Popular Posts
1. Blessed Are the Un-Cool (This older post from July of 2011 got a new life on Facebook this month.) 2. They Were Right (And Wrong) About the Slippery Slope 3. Driscoll, “Real Marriage,” and Why Being...
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Let’s plant some seeds together...
My friend Kathy Escobar has contributed some beautiful and challenging thoughts to our conversation about John Piper's call for a “masculine Christianity.” “Change in ‘the church’ is coming,” she...
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Sunday Superlatives 2/5/2012
So on Tuesday I’ll be highlighting the fantastic responses we received to our call for men to honor and celebrate women in the Church as a way of providing an alternative to John Piper’s assertion...
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February & March Travels
There are lots of ways we can connect in person over the next few weeks. Let me know if you plant to be at one of the following events: Baylor University Chapel – Waco, TXWhen: Monday, February 20,...
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God Hates Cretans? (and other passages of Scripture we’d rather not talk about)
As part of our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, we’re working our way through Christian Smith’s book, The Bible Made Impossible, In it, Smith tackles the...
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