When it comes to human beings, are you more optimistic or pessimistic?It’s trendy to be optimistic: believe in yourself. You gotta be you! Find your calling. Do what’s true for you. Improve yourself!W...  Read More

Most good ideas or discoveries can be used by Christians to defeat their own message of grace.In fact, holding on to grace is like trying to play water polo with a greased watermelon in a swimming poo...  Read More

With the possible exception of career, politics has become today’s most popular replacement religion, certainly the one with the most forward momentum and cultural currency. For many, its substitution...  Read More

Arriving in urban northern California in the early 2000’s I noticed that people were doing cleanses. Others were eating raw. Organic was becoming a thing. Eggs had to be free-range. Hormone-free event...  Read More

I’ve been quoting a lot from David Zahl. In his book, Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do About It, he shows all sorts of ...  Read More

Work has always served as the great American barometer of worth and identity. Our occupation is the number one socially approved means of justifying our existence, and not just the type of occupation ...  Read More

Maybe you know someone who still only uses a flip-phone. Or maybe you’ve gone on a retreat that included a digital sabbath (no emails, no smartphone).In his book, Seculosity, David Zahl cuts to the he...  Read More

Babywise or Attachment Parenting?Helicopter or Tiger Mom?And… how are those kids turning out anyway?In being parented or in parenting your child you have encountered the dilemma of an increasingly rel...  Read More

Hey look over there! This summer we’ll point you to other writers, books, bloggers & vloggers each week. Adopted: The Sacrament of Belonging in a Fractured World by Kelley Nikondeha (Eerdmans)“Althoug...  Read More

Hey look over there! This summer we’ll point you to other writers, books, bloggers & vloggers each week.“Things Jesus Never Said” by Maggie Johnson......  Read More

Hey look over there! This summer we’ll point you to other writers, books, bloggers & vloggers each week.A few articles from Thin Places, a blog by Amy Julia Becker —Why We Still Go to Church John Perk...  Read More

Hey look over there! This summer we’ll point you to other writers, books, bloggers & vloggers each week. Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear "Matthew Kaemingk’s considerati...  Read More