“I’m spiritual, but not religious” (SBNR) is the popular slogan of today’s fastest growing religious spiritual movement: the ‘nones’ and ‘does.’ They hold it high as a banner of freedom from the bondage and oppression of religion. To be fair, the…Read More→
Instead of giving you more theory about the why and the what of discipleship, I’d rather show one of the great benefits that arises from thinking differently (more movementally) about something that we think that we Evangelicals think we already…Read More→
When tragedies happen like the massive forest fire that recently wreaked havoc in the city of Fort McMurray, AB, it is inevitable that people ask these and other similar questions – Where was God? and Why did God allow this…Read More→
A recent book by Thomas Jay Oord that presents God’s love as non-controlling has me thinking about how we might imagine this idea at its fullest extension. Tom’s rigorous way of following this line of thinking to a surprising conclusion…Read More→
These days, with the world being as busy as it is, it is often hard to sit down for just a few moments to relax and pass the time with a hobby. With work or school demands, an endless to-do…Read More→
Does quarreling build healthy relationships? The Bible doesn’t seem to suggest so. For instance, in Proverbs 19:13 it says that “a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.” And, in Proverbs 17:19 it reads, “Whoever loves a quarrel…Read More→