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"Are culture war 'victories' worth the casualties?"
I’m over at CNN today posing that question. A couple excerpts: “This is the tragic irony of the culture wars: The casualties tend to be the very people Jesus went out of his way to serve: the poor, the...
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Free Gifts, New Video: "Resurrection"
To celebrate the launch of Searching for Sunday we're giving away free gifts to everyone who who buys Searching for Sunday and submits their proof of purchase by April 18th, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.For...
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The Women of Holy Week, Part 1: Why the Women Matter
When referring to the earliest followers of Jesus, the Gospel writers often speak of two groups of disciples: the Twelve and the Women. The Twelve are the dozen Jewish men chosen by Jesus to be his...
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The Women of Holy Week, Part 2: The Woman at Bethany Anoints Jesus
They say that of the five senses, smell is most closely linked to memory. The phenomenon has something to do with the olfactory bulb in the brain’s limbic system and how it forever links the scent of...
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Women of Holy Week, Part 3: Mary's Heart is Pierced (Again)
© 2011 John Morgan, Flickr | CC-BY | via WylioThen Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: ‘This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that...
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The Women of Holy Week, Part 4: The Women Wait
© 2008 McKay Savage, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio“The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb on how his body was laid. Then they returned, and prepared spices and...
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The Women of Holy Week, Part 5: Mary Sees The Risen Lord
© 2011 Ted, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio"Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: 'I have seen the Lord!'"—John 20:18The story of how Mary Magdalene became known as a prostitute is a...
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One Week Left (and a surprise)
Next Tuesday, April 14th, is the official release date of Searching for Sunday, my latest book. It explores all that is beautiful and ugly and complicated about the church, through the imagery of seven...
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Release Day Surprise: Free Album with “Searching for Sunday”
Today I’m thrilled to celebrate with you the release of my new book, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church. Arranged around the imagery of seven sacraments, it’s a book about...
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Searching for Sunday Audiobook & Discussion Guide
Many of you have asked about the Searching for Sunday audiobook, which I’m happy to announce is now available at Audible.com and all major online audio retailers. I had a blast recording the narration...
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"Like a Bird": Artist Ruth Meharg brings the 7 sacraments of "Searching for...
“…The Spirit is like a bird, fragile alloy of heaven and earth, where wind and feather and flight meets breath and blood and bones. The rabbis imagined her as a pigeon, the Celts a wild goose. Like a...
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Searching for Sunday Excerpt: “Body”
Today's post is an excerpt from my new book, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding The Church and is taken from a chapter entitled, "Body." ***"You are the body of Christ, and each one of...
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Next Stop: Little Rock
© 2010 Sean Davis, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via WylioI’ll be spending the next few days in Little Rock, Arkansas, where I’m excited to join Westover Hills Presbyterian Church for worship on Sunday morning...
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Why a Seminary Degree Doesn’t Have to Make You A Jerk
© 1910 State Library Victoria Collections, Flickr | CC-BY | via WylioNot too long ago, I was at a dinner party and was asked by the hostess if I’d been embroiled in any intense writing projects lately....
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Searching for Sunday Excerpt: “Breath”
© 2007 Alfred Payne, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via WylioMy friend Shauna Niequist is as generous with her platform as she is with her heart and home, and this week she was kind enough to post an excerpt from...
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7 Ways to Welcome Young People to the Mainline
© 2009 Marc Kjerland, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via WylioIt’s been such a thrill to see my Washington Post op-ed, “Want millennials back in the pews? Stop trying to make church ‘cool’” generate so much...
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Follow Friday: The Women of Why Christian?
Why, in the wake of centuries of corruption, hypocrisy, crusades and televangelists, do we continue to follow Jesus? This was the question Nadia Bolz-Weber and I wanted to pose to ourselves and to...
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How to be a Christian on the Internet: 6 Questions and a New Series
© 2009 webtreats, Flickr | CC-BY | via WylioMy favorite blog posts are the ones that begin with a question to which I don’t know the answer, and this is especially true for a new series I’m pleased to...
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Sunday Superlatives 5/16/15
© 2011 Waiting For The Word, Flickr | CC-BY | via WylioAround the Blogosphere...Best Interview: In one of the greatest mashups ever, Krista Tippet interviews Maria Popova for On Being “I think a lot...
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A Sacrament of Song: On Exhibitionism, Local Art, & True Community (by Amanda...
Perhaps the greatest pleasure of releasing Searching for Sunday last month was introducing you to my sister, Amanda Opelt, a singer/songwriter out of Boone, North Carolina whose album, Seven Songs,...
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