Zombies, vampires, and many other monsters are all over pop culture these days, but did you know they are blogging too? Problogger is one of the most popular blogs in the world, and today they’re featuring a piece I wrote about how to fail at blogging. THE UNDEAD GUIDE TO KILLING YOUR BLOG I came […]
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Fans of A. J. Jacobs and Matt Mikalatos, rejoice! When journalist Joel Stein (Los Angeles Times, TIME) found out he and his wife were having a boy, he had a massive panic attack. Joe, it turns out, didn’t consider himself much of a man. The thought of trying to raise a boy terrified him. So […]
One day I went to work at the college where I teach history and government. In a day I’ll never forget I stepped into an empty hallway and an unforgettable crisis. You can read that story, a sneak preview of my new book, over at Shawn Smucker’s site in a post called: Jesus, Zombies and […]
Guy is one of my new blogger friends. He does campus ministry and his blog is a great resource for anyone who works with young adults. Check out his blog, Faith on Campus and follow him on Twitter! In the mid 1990s, the movie Jerry McGuire romanticized the notion of a soul mate — that […]
Every family has its share of legendary stories. Some are happy; some are sad; some are hilarious. My twisted family unit has gotten a lot of laughs over the years about the time they accidentally left me at a funeral home. When I was four years old. Where I knew no one. And there was […]
Shortly after I posted my review of Mark Driscoll’s Real Marriage, which failed as a book on marriage, many sympathetic to Driscoll told me to get the forthcoming The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller. Tim is the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church on the island of Manhattan. He’s also a New Calvinist and a […]
One of the best books I’ve ever read is Imaginary Jesus by Matt Mikalatos. As I read that book I knew a couple of things. 1. He’s a crazy gifted writer and thinker. 2. He’s my kind of crazy and has been described as C. S. Lewis meets Monty Python. 3. I wanted to meet […]
Have you noticed how much sitcoms have changed? The earliest sitcoms were nearly all about marriage, from Leave it to Beaver to Father Knows Best to I Love Lucy. For every Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H*, or Cheers, you had dozens of Growing Pains and Family Matters and Step by Step and Fresh Prince. As […]
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Shinedown and Unity
I can’t get this song out of my mind. Unity by Shinedown is like the ultimate call to action for me right now. Here’s my favorite part: “Put your hands in the air If you hear me out there I’ve been looking for you day and night Shine a light in the dark Let me […]
Marriage Confidential by Pamela Haag is one of the most thought-provoking and insightful books I’ve read in a long time. It deserves more than a single review, and I plan to interact with Pamela’s ideas in much more depth later this year. But I couldn’t spend a whole month talking about marriage and not include […]