Civil dialogue seems to be a thing of the past. More and more, we divide ourselves into camps, turn every issue into Us vs. Them. Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice. Democrats and Republicans. Cubs vs. Cardinals. And increasingly in our culture, Christian vs. Atheist. When we polarize our positions, we eliminate any real opportunity for dialog. I […]
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What Is Good To God?
You know those days where something goes terribly wrong and your entire course of events is altered? We’ve all been there. One of my favorite bands is Disciple. They were rolling along the road a couple weeks back when something bad happened. Here’s lead singer Kevin telling the story and explaining how sometimes the purpose […]
For more than a decade, Brad Lomenick has led Catalyst, the premier leadership brand for young Christian leaders. He’s finally distilled his 20+ years of leadership experience and his time at the helm of Catalyst into a simple, accessible and straight-forward guide to what it takes to be a next-generation leader. Brad defines a Catalyst […]
42 is the new biopic of Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play Major League Baseball. It’s a typical sports film in that it’s inspirational and feel-good. It’s also a typical race film in that it’s fairly heavy-handed. Even though 42 doesn’t look too hard to find a weakness in Robinson, neither does it […]
My review of the book Life After Art raised some questions, so the author, Matt Appling, graciously sat down with me to discuss his book! We talk about what inspired him to write Life After Art, how Postmodernism can inform art theory, and why breaking the rules might not be so bad after all! Apparently, my internet […]
What if a teen girl who struggled with an eating disorder suddenly became Famine, the Horseman of the Apocalypse? That question was all it took for me to dive into Hunger, the first book of the Riders of the Apocalypse Young Adult series written by Jackie Morse Kessler. I’ve done a little bit of work […]
To win a FREE copy of Life After Art, see the comments! If you know anything about public education in our country, you know it’s in a whole heap of trouble. And you’ve probably heard that Arts programs are the first to get cut. Because everyone in our culture knows that Art is expendable. But […]
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Seeing Dead People
Ministry Matters recently ran an excerpt from my book Undead. It’s actually one of the most meaningful passages in the entire book. Here’s an excerpt: “An old friend of mine named Dave died recently. Cancer. He was my age, a great guy with a heart you could feel and a smile that made you believe. […]
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StoryMen: The Crowdsourced Church
The StoryMen podcast I do with Matt Mikalatos and Clay Morgan put out our 10th episode today. Head over to the StoryMen page to check it out! In this episode, we talk about Crowdsourcing, and how the Church should be taking note to recapture the spirit of the Body of Christ we see in the […]
My friends Brannon Hancock (Worship Pastor at Xenia Church of the Nazarene) and Paul Dazet (Lead Pastor at Journey Nazarene) got together to discuss Rob Bell’s new book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. I took a page from Clay Morgan (who starts a new podcast every three days) and set up a […]