Category: Blog

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Seeing the cougar

A stream with no tributaries is a first-order stream. One with only first-order tributaries is second order and so-forth with ever increasing fractal complexity. So

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Promised Land?

Today, May 15, is known as The Nakba, the day 900,000 Palestinians became refugees when the state of Israel was formed in 1948. Today I

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Coming in second

Winning is wonderful. When we work hard, do our very best at a competitive thing, the thing goes really well, and we are the winners,

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Rethinking Revolution

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the French Revolution. I’m sure it’s been keeping you up at night, too. Please don’t stop reading!  As

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Invisible

Growing up, I remember debating with friends which superpower we would want. Superhuman strength to bend steel? X-ray vision to see through walls? To be

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Is the Bible Tone-Deaf?

No, it’s not fair to measure the New Testament “healing narratives” against contemporary standards like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), but it can be

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A Jesus Freak Kind of Conservative

A progressive friend of mine asked me recently what it means to me that I’m labeled as a conservative evangelical. With slight tongue-in-cheek, he especially

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The Problem of Good

This weekend I had the delight of hosting Jeff Munroe at my church. It was great fun for me, this connection of two places I’ve

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